Curtis's botanical magazine.

CURTIS'S

BOTANICAL MAGAZINE,

ILLUSTRATING AND DESCRIBING

Plants of the Ropal Botanic Gardens of Kev,
AND OF OTHER BOTANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS ;

EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM TURNER THISELTON-DYER, LL.D., Sc.D.,

K.C.M.G., C.1.E., F.R.S., F.LS., Erc.,
DIRECTOR, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.

VOL. 4.

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CADALVENA spEcTaBILIs.
Tropical Africa.

ScrtaMInE&%. Tribe ZINGIBERER.

Capatvena, Fenzl in Sitz. Akad. Wissen. Wien, Math. Nat. vol. li. 2, p. 189.

Cadalvena spectabilis, Fenzl, l.c.; Baker in Thiselton-Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr.
vol. vii. p. 297 ; a C. pistizxfolia, Baker, foliis imbricatis basi non incrassatis
differt.

Herba acaulis, stolonibus vaginatis instructa. Folia 4-7, rosulata, obovato-
cuneata vel fere orbicularia, 2-9 poll. longa et lata, supra obscure
viridia et glabra, subtus pallidiora et appresse pubescentia, marginibus
integerrimis rubris minute ciliatis. Flores foliis coetanei, 2-4 e centro
foliorum rosule orientes, subsessiles. Oalyz campanulatus, mem-
branaceus, circa 20 lin. longus, lobis 3 brevibus triangularibus.
Corolla pallide lutea, circa 3 poll. longa, profunde lobata, lobis
oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 6 lin. latis. Staminodia lateralia nulla.
Labellum luteum, basi convolutum 4 poll. longum, limbo suborbiculari
patente 5 poll. diam. margine undulato. Stamen petaloideum, luteum,
4 poll. longum, 4 lin. latum, lanceolatum; anthera paullo infra
medium filamenti adnata, 4 lin. longa, loculis parallelis. Ovariwm
pracipue apice villosum; ovula numerosa; stylus filiformis; stigma
flabellatum, ciliatum. Capsula membranacea, circa 1 poll. longa.—
Kempferia spectabilis, Benth. in Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. vol. iii.
p- 642. Costus spectabilis, K. Schum. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xv.
p- 422; Engl. Pflanzenr., Zingiberacew, p. 421. Gagnepain in Bull.
Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun, vol. xv. p. 18. .

This plant was originally described in 1865 as the type
of a new genus, concerning the validity of which opinions
have since differed. Bentham suggested that it should
be united with Kempferia, while K. Schumann has placed
it in Costus. It is, however, intermediate between these
two genera, having the habit, calyx, and corolla of the
former, with the stamen and staminodes as in the latter,
and is, therefore, better retained as generically distinct.
One other species has been referred to this genus, viz.
C. pistiefolia, Baker, from Angola, which differs from the
present plant in having the leaves thickened and spongy
at the base, but not imbricate.

C. spectabilis is widely diffused in Tropical Africa,
extending from Upper Sennar and Loukoungou, on the
Congo, southward to Nyasaland. A specimen from
Morambala Mountain, Portuguese East Africa, collected
by Sir John Kirk, is accompanied by a water-colour

JaNuaRy Ist, 1905.

drawing. Dried specimens of young plants much resemble
those of Pistia Stratiotes, Linn. The conspicuous yellow |
flowers seated in the centre of the rosettes of bright
green, red-edged leaves, render this plant highly decora-
tive.
The genus was named after the traveller, Hd. de
Cadalvéene, author of a work entitled: L’Hgypte et La
Nubie. Paris, 1836. |

Our figure was taken from a plant which flowered in a
stove at Kew in July last, having been grown from tubers
received in 1903 from Mr. J. McClounie, Head of the
Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa.

Descr.—A. stemless herb, bearing stolons covered with
imbricate scales. Leaves four to seven in a rosette,
obovate-cuneate or almost orbicular, two to nine inches
long and broad, upper surface dark green and glabrous,
under surface paler and adpressedly pubescent, margins
quite entire, red, ciliate. Flowers produced at the same
time as the leaves, two to four subsessile in the centre of
the rosette. Calyx campanulate, membranous, about
twenty lines long; lobes three, short, triangular. Corolla
pale yellow, about three inches long, deeply three-lobed ;
lobes oblong-oblanceolate, acute, six lines wide. Lateral
stamimodes none. Lip yellow, convolute, base four inches
long; limb patent, undulate at the margin, five inches
in diameter. Stamen petaloid, four inches long, four lines
wide, lanceolate ; anther aduate to the filament just below
its centre, four lines long; cells parallel. Ovary three-
celled, villous, especially at the apex; ovules many; style
filiform; stigma flabellate, ciliate. Capsule membranous,
about one inch long.—C, H. Waicur.

Fig. 1, stamen and style, natural size; 2, sti ; 5
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COTY LEDON ELEGANS,

Mexico.

CRASSULACEA.

CoryLepon, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659; Engler &
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. vol. iii. 2, A, p. 32.

Cotyledon (§ Echeveria) elegans, N. HE. Brown; species distinctissima,
indumento et pedunculis 1- vel 2-fluris facile distinguitur.

Suffrutexr succulentus, ramosus, usque 20 poll. altus, omnino pubescens.
Folia laxe rosulata, sessilia, spathulato-oblanceolata, acuta, 3-13 poll.
longa, 3-4 poll. lata, 3 poll. crassa. Pedunculi infra folia oriundi, 23-
6 poll. longi, paucifoliati, apice 1- vel 2-flori. Sepala inzqualia, paten-
tissima, lanceolata, acuta. Corolla circiter 1 poll. longa, erecta, tubuloso-
campanulata, pentagona, extra coccinea, intra flava; segmenta fere ad
basin libera, lineari-oblonga, acuta, dorso carinata, basi leviter gibbosa,
apice recurva. Stamina inclusa, pallide lutea, glabra; filamenta fili-
formia, glabra. Glandule hypogyne brevissime, transverse, truncate.
Carpella corolle subsequilonga, glabra.—Oliverella elegans, Rose in
Bull. New York Bot. Gard. vol. iii. p. 2.

This most distinct and handsome species was found in
August, 1901, in cultivation at Amacamaca, near the City
of Mexico, by Dr. J. N. Rose, of the United States
National Herbarium at Washington, and a plant was sent
by him in 1903 to Kew, where it flowered in June, 1904,
The specimen figured is a young plant; in the adult state
it is of a much larger size. C. elegans is one of the very
few species of Cotyledon that are pubescent, and this
character, in conjunction with its one- or two-flowered
peduncles, readily distinguish it from all others. Although
the peduncles bear so few flowers, their large size and
brilliant colour make it one of the most attractive species
yet introduced. Like most of its Mexican congeners, this
species belongs to the section Hcheveria, and although Dr.
Rose has published it under a new generic name, I can
find nothing, either in habit, vegetative organs, or floral
structure, whereby it can be generically separated.

Descr.—A suffruticose, succulent perennial, branching
from the base upwards, one to two feet high; branches,
leaves, peduncle, calyx, and outside of the corolla softly
and minutely pubescent. Branches a quarter to a third of
an inch thick. Jeaves in small, lax, terminal rosettes,
_ January Ist, 1905,

spreading, sessile, two-thirds to one inch and a quarter
long, one-third to half an inch broad, one-sixth thick,
spathulate-oblanceolate, acute, flat above, convex beneath,
light green, tips tinged with red. Peduwncles arising
below the rosettes of leaves, two to six inches long,
bearing a few scattered, spreading leaves, which soon
fall away, one- or two-flowered; pedicels half to one inch
long. lowers sub-erect. Sepals unequal, spreading,
linear-lanceolate, four to six or seven lines long, about two
lines broad, acute, light green. Corolla about an inch
long, and half an inch in diameter, tubular-campanulate,
five-angled, bright, clear red, or almost scarlet outside,
light yellow within ; segments free almost to the base, but
closely overlapping, oblong, acute, recurved at the apex,
slightly gibbous at the base, acutely keeled down the
back. Stamens inserted a little above the base of the
corolla, included, filaments rather stoutly filiform, not
dilated at the base, pale yellow, glabrous; anthers pale
yellow. Hypogynous glands very short, broader than long,
truncate. Carpels about an inch long, shortly ovoid at the
base, tapering into long styles, pale yellow below, greenish
above, with brown stigmas.—N. E. Brown.

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PHYLLOSTACHYS NIGRA.
China and Japan.

GRAMINEH. Tribe BamBusEat,

Puytiostacuys, Sieb. & Zuce.; Munro in Trans, Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. (1868),
p. 35. Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 1208.

Phyllostachys nigra, Munro, l.c. p. 38; Riviere, Les Bambous, pp. 255-261;
Matsumura, Useful Plants of Japan (1895), p. 147, fig. 593. Mitford,
Bamboo Gard. (1896), pp. 142-145, etc. Satow, Cultiv. of Bamb. in
Japan (EKetr. Trans. As. Soc. Japan, vol. xxvii. 1899), pp. 52-54,
with plate; inter species generis panicula supradecomposita ampla
distincta, P. Fawrei, Hack., proxima, culmis haud vel minus distincte
angulatis plerumque fistulosis vix specifice distincta; forma primo
descripta culmis ramisque demum_ eleganter purpureo-nigrescentibus
notabilis—Arundo Bambos, Thunb. FI. Fess (1784), p. 54 pro parte.—

' Bambusa nigra, Lodd. Cat. of Plants, ed. 14, 1826, p. 5.

Phyllostachys nigra is not specifically distinct from
P. Henonis, Mitf., P. Castillonis, Mitf., and P. boryana,
Mitf. They are forms—mainly colour varieties—of a
species which is very uniform in its flowers and inflo-
rescences. In this respect it approaches so closely
P, Faurei, Hack., a native of Japan, that the only
tangible differences between them are in the singularly
angular and perfectly solid stems of P. Fawrei. It has
been remarked by Japanese botanists that most of the
bamboos of Japan flower very rarely, and “ flowering
periods”’ of thirty or sixty years have been ascribed to
them.

According to Loudon (Hort. brit. p. 124), this Bamboo
was introduced into England by C. Loddiges in 1825.* It
appears in Loddiges’ ‘‘ Catalogue of Plants” for 1826,
among the stove plants as Bambusa nigra, but nothing is
said about the origin. Lindley, in “ Penny Cyclopedia,”
vol. ii, (1835), p. 357, gives the neighbourhood of Canton
as its home, adding that the beautiful slender stems are
cut for the handles of parasols, walking-sticks, &c. It is

* Ruprecht (l.c.) quotes “Bambusa nigra, Loddig., 1823,” Munro and
others following him. I have not seen Loddiges’ Catalogue for 1823, which
was the thirteenth edition, but Loudon (I.c.) has distinctly 1825 as the year of
introduction,

January Ist, 1905,

impossible to trace the introduction of P. nigra into —
England to any definite collector. In 1835, a specimen of —

it was growing in the garden of the London Horti- ©

cultural Society, and as it had stood several winters
unprotected, Lindley suggested that it might be acclima- _
tized in the south-west of England, and on the west
coast of Ireland; nevertheless, it remained all but un-
noticed in this country for a long time afterwards.
Although P. nigra has been in cultivation in France for
about sixty years, and the flowering of other bamboos has
_ generally been recorded in horticultural journals and the
publications of the Société d’Acclimation of Paris, I have
not been able to find a single reference to the flowering —
of P. nigra until quite recently, when it was recorded
(Gardener’s Chronicle, August, 1901, p. 154), as being in
flower in the garden of the Hon. Charles Ellis, Frensham
Hall, Shottermill, Haslemere. Kew had, however, received
flowering specimens from the Royal Botanic Gardens,
Glasnevin, in 1900, In 1902 it flowered with Lord Ventry —
at Burnham House, Dingle, Co. Cork, and the accompanying
plate was drawn from specimens communicated by him.
Descr.—A stoloniferous shrub forming dense bushes of
numerous culms. Culms under favourable conditions
over twenty feet high; internodes as much as ten inches /
long, rarely more than one inch in diameter, terete apart
from the flattened or shallowly grooved side facing the
branches, rarely more or less angular, olive-green when
young, turning purple in the second year, ultimatel
purple-black, covered with a white bloom below the
lower node, fistulous or solid in part; branchlets ver
slender, graceful, much divided, thickened at the nodes.
Cataphylis early deciduous, pale purple or violet, oblong,
the lowest hairy, the upper glabrous, fimbriate at the
mouth or the uppermost efimbriate, ligules short, rounded :
blades linear-subulate. Leaves with tight glabrous sheaths,
bearing more or less deciduous, fimbrize, as much as four ~ «
lines long, at the mouth, with short, truncate ligules ;
blades green, lanceolate, acutely acuminate, shortly at-
tenuated from the rounded base into the short petiole,
two to five inches long, five to seven lines wide, rough
along both edges, pubescent near the base on the lower
surface, Panicle copiously divided, usually large, leafy

or leafless; spathaceous sheaths at the bases of the
ultimate ramifications early deciduous, oblong, narrow, six
to eight lines long. Spikelets usually two-flowered, eight
to ten lines long; glume usually one, lanceolate, acute,
sometimes bearing a small blade, sparsely pubescent,
about seven-nerved; valves lanceolate, subulate, acumi-
nate, herbaceously papery, nine-nerved, densely pubescent ;
palea bidentate, pubescent on the sides, much shorter
than the valves. Anthers yellow, four lines long. Ovary
suveuipiiate ; stigmas three, as long as the style-—Orro
TAPE.

Fig. 1, junction of sheath and blade of a leaf; 2,a spikelet; 3, a palea;
4, a lodicnle; 5, a young stamen ; 6, a pistil.

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SWAINSONA MAccuLLOCHIANA. |

North-west Australia.

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Lecuminosa. Tribe CoLutea.

Swarnsona, Salish.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 504; Benth. Fl.
Austral, vol. it. p. 214; Taubert in Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. 8,
B. p. 281.

Swainsona macculochiana, Ff. Muell. Fragm. Phytogr. Austral. vol. vii.
p. 25; ab omnibus speciebus hactenus cognitis florum magnitudine ac
pulchritudine longe distat. ;

Frutex erectus, sparse pabescens, usque ad 8 ped. altus. Oaulis validus.
Folia 8-18-juga, rhachi satis valida; foliola elliptica vel’ obovata,
mucronata, supra glabriuscula, subtus puberula; stipulw oblique
deltoidew, integre@ vel dentate, Racemus multiflorus, longiuscule
Sopra reg bracteis subulato-setaceis; pedicelli 2 lin. longi, apice

racteolati. Calycis dentes setaceo-acuminati, tubo paullo breviores,
postici deltoidei, laterales semilanceolati, anticus anguste triangularis.
Corolla rubro-purpurea ; vexillum ovato-orbiculare, emarginatum, infra
medium reflexum, carinam leviter curvatam obtusam paullo superans ;
ale carina vix breviores, oblongew, rotundate, basi auriculate, ungue
curvato. Ovarium longiuscule stipitatum, sericeo-pubescens; stylus
pilorum fasciculo terminali carens. Legumen breviter stipitatum, sutura
ventrali intrusa biloculare, molliter pubescens, stylo incurvo persistente
coronatum ; semina rugosa,

The small tribe Colutee contains seven or eight rather
closely allied genera, three of which, Lessertia, Sphero-
physa, and Swainsona might well be united. Spherophysa
scarcely differs from Swainsona except in the more globose
pod, and Taubert has accordingly reduced it to the latter
genus. The separation of the S. African Lessertia from
Swainsona, which includes about forty Australian species,
and one from N. Zealand, is hardly more justifiable.
Swainsona has a more or less two-celled pod by intrusion
of the ventral suture, and the style usually bearded along
the inner side; Lessertia a one-celled pod, and a style
which usually is not bearded along the inner side; but
Swainsona lava has the style of a Lessertia, and Lessertia
physodes that of a Swainsona. |

Taubert, though keeping the two genera distinct, admits
that they will probably be united by some future mono-
grapher.

Swainsona procumbens, S. phacoides, S. oroboides and

JaNvary Ist, 1905.

other species are reputed valuable fodder plants for sheep
when mixed with other herbage, but one or two species of
Swainsona, including S. galegifolia, are poisonous to stock,
and produce symptoms like those caused by the N.
American ‘“‘loco”’ weeds. Several species have become
well-known greenhouse plants, and the following have
been figured in this magazine :—S., coronillxfolia (t. 1725),
S. greyana (t. 4416), and S. occidentalis (t. 5490).
Swainsona maccullochiana is by far the finest species
from a horticultural standpoint. Mueller states that its
stem is simple in the lower part and that it grows in the
form of a small tree. It was first introduced into English
gardens by Messrs. H. Low & Co. of Enfield, who
exhibited it in flower at the Temple Show in 1901, when
it was awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal
Horticultural Society. Our plate was prepared from a
plant which was raised at Kew from seeds sent by Mr.
G. F. Berthoud, Waroona, West Australia, and flowered
in July, 1904.
Descv.—An erect, sparsely pubescent shrub, eight feet
high or less. Stem stout at the base. Leaves with eight —
to thirteen pairs of leaflets; leaflets elliptic or obovate,
mucronate, nearly glabrous above, puberulous below.
Ftaceme many-flowered, with subulate-setaceous bracts.
Pedicels two lines long, with two setaceous bractlets at
their apex. Calya-teeth acuminate, rather shorter than the _
tube, the two uppermost deltoid, the lower ones narrower. —
Corolla reddish-purple ; standard ovate-orbicular, emargi-
nate, reflexed, slightly exceeding the obtuse keel: wings ©
rather shorter than the keel, oblong, rounded, auricled at —
the base. Ovary stipitate, silky-pubescent ; style without —
a terminal tuft of hairs, Pod shortly stipitate, two-celled —

by intrusion of the ventral suture, softly pubescent. Seeds
wrinkled.—T, A. Spraaun.

Fig. 1, calyx laid open and stamens;

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VANILLA Hometort.

Madagascar.

Orcuipacka. Tribe NEOTTIES.

VaniLia, Swartz; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 590. Pfitzer in
Engl. & Prantl. Pflanzenfam. vol. ii. 6, p. 108.

Vanilla (§ Aphylle) Humblotii, Reichd. f. in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. i. p. 726 ;
Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xxxii. p 476; Cogn. et Gooss. Dict. Ic. des
— Vanilla, t. 1; inter species aphyllas labelli disco valde villoso

istincta.

Caules alte scandentes, teretes, crasso-carnosi, verrucosi, glaucescentes,
maculati; internodia 34-4 poll. longa, 5-6 lin. lata. Squamez ovate,
acute, parve. Racemi laterales, 6 poll. longi, circa 6-Aori, rhachi cauli
similis. Bractee ovato-oblonge, obtuse v. subacute, 6-10 lin. longer,
carneo-brunnex. Flores aperti, speciosi, lutei, labelli discus brunneo-
maculatus, fauces pilis sanguineis instructs. Pedicelli 2-23 poll. longi.
Sepala elliptico-oblonga, subobtusa, 23-23 poll. longa, 10-11 lin. lata,
lateralia subfaleata. Petala elliptica, subobtusa, 23-22 poll. longa, 13
poll. lata. Zabellum integrum, apiculatum, undulatum, 23-2} poll.

_ longum, marginibus prope basin convolutis et column adnatis; tubus
latus, 6-7 lin. longus; discus pilosus, pilis inferioribus retrorsis,
superioribus in lineas divergentes extensis. Columna clavata, arcuata,
10 lin. longa; rostellum quadratum, 1 lin. longum.—V. Phaleznopsis,
Gard. World, 1904, p. 481, non Reichb. f.

The only Vanilla hitherto depicted in this Magazine is
the Vanilla of commerce, V. planifolia, Andr. (t. 7167).
This species is one of the very few Orchids which are
of economic importance. The subject of tle present plate |
is a very different species, belonging to the section
Aphylle, a remarkable group of about a dozen species,
found in each of the three great tropical areas. The
African species of this group are four in number, namely :
V. Roscheri, Reichb. f., from Zanzibar ; V. madagascariensis,
Rolfe, from Madagascar; V. Phalenopsis, Reichb. f., from
Seychelles, and the present one, V. Humblotii, Reichb. f.
The last was described by Reichenbach, in 1885, from
dried specimens collected in the Great Comoro Islands by
Mr. Lecn Humblot. Nothing further was known about it
until last June, when a plant supposed to be V. Phalwnop- —
sis, Reichb. f., flowered in the collection of Sir Trevor |
Lawrence, Bart., at Burford, Dorking, and the inflorescence

JANUARY Ist, 1905.

was sent to Kew for figuring. Sir Trevor’s plant was
sent from Madagascar in June, 1900, by Mr. Hamelin.
The stem sent was wired on to a teak trellis, which was
fixed into a large pot filled with sphagnum moss, and
placed in a hothouse. It soon began to grow vigorously,
and a year later had reached the top of the trellis, atter
which it was trained horizontally along the roof. When
it flowered, in June last, it had reached a length of ten
or twelve feet, and the inflorescence was produced about
four feet from the top of the stem.

V. Phalenopsis, with which V. Humblotii was confused,

has dark green, uniformly coloured stems, and smaller
flowers, which have cream-white sepals and petals, and an
orange-yellow lip, paler on the margin. It is figured in
Flore des Serres, t. 1769-1770. There is a small plant in
the Kew collection, but it has not yet flowered.

Descr.—A tall, leafless climber. Stems terete, fleshy,
glaucous green, covered with numerous dark green warts ;
internodes three to four inches long, by about six lines
broad; stouter at the base. Squame ovate, acute, about
four lines long. Inflorescence lateral, six imches long,
like the stem in colour and markings, but with fewer
warts. Bracts oblong, subacute, or obtuse, somewhat
concave, six to ten lines long. JPedicels about two
inches long. Flowers about five inches across, bright
yellow, with numerous brown markings on the lip, and
some rosy crimson hairs in the throat. Sepals elliptic-
oblong, sub-apiculate, two and a half to three inches long,
ten to eleven lines broad; lateral somewhat falcate.
Petals similar, but broader. Lip entire, apiculate, undu-
late, about two inches and a half long, convolute at the
base, and adnate to the sides of the column, forming a
broad tube, about half an inch long; dise pilose, rosy
crimson, lower hairs retrorse, extending upwards in two
broad lines, with, on either side, a number of short,
radiating brown lines. Column clavate, slightly arcuate,

ten lines long; rostellum. quadrate, one line long.—
R. A. Rowe.

Fig. 1, column; 2 and 3, anther case seen from front and back:—all
magnified.

7997

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YUCCA GUATEMALENSIS.

Central America.

Liviacea. Tribe DRacanesx,

Yucca, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 778; Baker in Journ.
Linn. Soe. vol. xviii. p. 219; et in Gard. Chron. 1870, passim.

Y. (§ Sarcoyneca) guatemalensis, Baker in Ref. Bot. vol. v. t. 313; Engel-
mann, Coll. Bot. Works, p. 289; Trelease, Missouri Bot. Gard. Ann.
Rep. 1898, p. 184, tt. 1, 2, 19, inter species hujus sectionis foliis minute
denticulatis non filiferis distincta.

Arbor circiter 40-pedalis. Truncusad terram circiter 6 ped. ambitn, sursum
gradatim angustatus, ad pedem supra solum 5 ped. ad 6 pedes supra
solum 2 ped. ambitu, prope apicem tantum dense pauciramosus. Fo/ia
conferta, din persistentia, maxima circiter 4-pedalia, basi semiamplexi-
caulia, 5 poll. lata, paullo supra basin 3 poll. lata, 6 poll. supra basin 2}
poll. lata, 2} ped. supra basin 4 poll. lata, paallo supra insertionem
abrupte recurva, alte concavo-convexa, margine per totam longitudinem
minute dentata, apice vix pungentia. Puanicule dense ramos, fere
sessiles, 3-4 ped. longw ; bractew qnam pedicelli breviores; pedicelli 1-2
poll. longi, graciliuseuli. #/ores albi vel pallide Inteo-virides, circiter
3-poll. diametro. Perianthium companulatum; segmenta lanceolata, 3
+xteriora paullo angustiora, 1}-2 poll. longa, omnia obtusa, apice inflexa.
Stamina quam pistillum breviora; filamenta clavata, puberula vel minute
papillosa. Ovariwm glabrnm; styli brevissimi. Fructus baccatus mihi
ignotus.—Y. Roezlii, et Y. Ghiesbreghtii, Hort., Dracena Ehrenbergii,
D. Lennei, D. yuccoides, et D. ensifolia, Hort., fide Baker in Journ. Linn,
Soc. Bot. vol. xviii. p. 222.

The above description is entirely drawn up from the
specimen figured, which has been growing in the Temperate
House, Kew, at least twenty-five years, and is now the
largest of which the dimensions are on record. It is
probably the same one that is figured in the “ Refugium
Botanicum,” and, if so, it was previously in the Succulent
House. This species is one of the handsomest of the
genus, but it is not quite hardy. The date of its introduc-
tion into this country is uncertain, yet it must have been
long before 1373, when it was first figured, and then also
from a plant that flowered at Kew. At that time it had a
trunk from five to six feet high.

Dr. W. Trelease, Director of the Missouri Botanic
Garden, who has more fully than any other botanist
described and illustrated the genus Yucca and its allies,
identifies Y. guatemalensis, Baker, with a plant included by
Regel (Gartenfl. vol. vili. 1859, p. 35) under Y. aloifolia.

Fesrvaky Ist, 1908.

Regel casually mentions that it was also known in gardens
under the name of Y. elephantipes, on account of the stem
being thickened at the base. Consequent on this identifica-
tion, Trelease (Missouri Bot. Gard. Ann. ep. 1902, p. 94,
tt. 51, 82, & 84, f° 7) adopts the last name for the species,
a course which we do not feel justified in following. He
may be right, but ‘even if he is, it seems undesirable to
take up a name that has no more claim than some of the
other synonyms cited above. As to the swollen base of
the stem, that may be an inconstant character. The
figure in the “ Refugium Botanicum ” represents a perfectly
cylindrical stem, and the tree here described has a tapering
stem, without any bulging at the base. On the other
hand, a Yucca growing in the Cambridge Botanic Garden
figured in the ‘* Gardeners’ Chronicle ” (series 3, vol. XXill.
1895, ':p. 524, f. 93) as Y. guatemalensis had a stem with
a swollen. base. . At our request, Mr. Lynch has sent us a
leaf of the Cambridge plant, which has all the charac-
teristics of Y. guatemalensis. :

Descr.—A tree about forty feet high. Trunk not
Swollen at the base, about six feet in girth close to the —
ground; about five feet at one foot from the ground, and
about two feet at six feet from the ground, densely —
branched at the very top only, Leaves crowded, per-
sistent long after withering, largest about four feet long,
stem-clasping base five inches broad, narrowed imme- _
diately above the attachment, two inches and a quarter
broad at six inches from’ the base, about: four inches
broad -at two feet and a quarter from the base,
deeply concavo-convex, margin very obscurely toothed
throughout, tip scarcely spiny. Panicle densely branched, —
almost sessile, three to
than the pedicels. Flowers white, or slightly tinged
with yellow, about three inches across. Perianth cam- a
panulate ; segments lanceolate, about two inches long, —
rather obtuse, three ‘outer somewhat narrower than _
the inner. Stamens shorter than the pistil; filaments —
club-shaped, puberulous. Ovary glabrous; style very —

short. Fruit a berry, not seen by us.—W. Bortine —
HeEmMstey.

Fig. 1, portion of the edge of leaf; 2 and 3, stamens :—all enlarged; -
~4, whole plant: about one-fiftieth of the natural size. te

four feet long; bracts shorter

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TU LIPA LINIFOLtA.

Turkestan.

Linaces. Tribe TuLire®.

Tours, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 818; Buker in Journ.
Linn. Soe. vol. xiv. p. 275.

Tulipa linifolia, Regel in Acta Horti Petrop. vol. viii. p. 648, t. 5, ff. let 2;
Gartenfl. 1886, p. 622, t. 1235; species ex affinitate 7’. montane, Lindl.,
perianthii segmentis equalibus apice non attenuatis differt.

Bulbus ovoideus, 6-9 lin. diam., extus nigrescens, tunicis. apice intus hirsuto-
barbatis. Calis tenuis, 2-10 poll. altus, plus minusve flexuosus. Folia
circa 6, ad medinm caulis affixa, primum congesta, demum_ sparsa,
linearia vel infima lineari-lanceolata, flores demum superantia, glabra
vel sparse ciliata, 3-5 poll. longa, 2-4 lin. lata. Pedunculus glaber,
uniflorus. Perianthii segmenta inter se wqualia, obovata vel ovato-
lanceolata, subito breviterque acuminata, coccinea, basi macula atro-
purpurea ornata. Stamina perianthio dimidio breviora; filamenta e basi
dilatata linearia, glabra; antherze oblong#, purpurez, filamentis paullo
breviores. Ovarium oblongum, trigonum; stylus brevis, conicus; stigma
capitatum, ovario paullo latius. Capsula ovoidea, trigona, stylo per-
sistenti apiculata. f

This is one of the species of Tulipa from Turkestan
alluded to under t. 7991. It was discovered by Albert
Regel at Darwas, in Eastern Bokhara, at from 3,000 to
6,000 ft. elevation, and has for the past twelve years been
in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers annually in May,
our figure being made last spring. The bulbs were pro-
bably originally received from the late Dr. E. Regel,
Director of the Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. A com-
parison of the wild with the cultivated specimen shows
that while the latter remains dwarf, its stem has increased —
in thickness and the leaves in width. In the wild state
the stem is almost more slender than in any other species
of the genus, and more or less flexuous. The leaves are
usually borne above the middle of the stem. The dwarf
habit and brilliant crimson flowers render this plant
attractive for cultural purposes.

T. linifolia cannot be placed in any of the sections of
the genus proposed in Mr. Baker’s monograph in the
Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. xiv. (1875) p. 276,
but is intermediate between the Eriobulbi and Sylvestres.

Feurvary Ist, 1905,

Tts nearest ally is 7. Mazimowiczti, Regel (Gartenflora,
1889, p. 505, t. 1807, fig. 1), also a native of Hastern
Bokhara, which has narrow leaves, but can be readily
distinguished by its acuminate perianth-segments, the
outer being much broader than the inner.

Deser—A dwarf plant. Bulb ovoid, six to nine lines in
diameter, tunics blackish outside, bearded inside at the
apex with brownish hairs. Stem slender, two to ten
inches high, more or less flexuous. Leaves about six near
the middle of the stem, at first close together, finally
separated by the lengthening of the internodes, linear,
or the lowest linear-lanceolate, overtopping the flowers,
glabrous or sparingly ciliate, three to five inches long, two
to four lines broad. Peduncle glabrous, one-flowered.
Perianth-segments uniform, obovate or ovate-lanceolate,
abruptly and shortly acuminate, crimson, with a black-
purple spot inside the base. Stamens about half as long
as the perianth, purple; filaments linear from a dilated
base, glabrous; anthers oblong, rather shorter than the
filaments. Ovary oblong, trigonous; style short, conical ;
stigma capitate, a little wider than the ovary. Capsule

ovoid, trigonous, beaked by the persistent style-—C. H.
WricHt,

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers; 3, pistil: ell enlarged.

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ANGELONTA nveceerima.
Brazil and Paraguay.

SCROPHULARIACES. ‘Tribe HEMIMERIDER.

Aneetonia, Humb, et Bonpl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 980.

Angelonia ({ Crassifolie) integerrima, Spreng. Syst. vol. iv. Cur. Post.
p. 235; Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. ii. p. 592; Schmidt in Mart.
Fl. Bras. vol. viii. pars 1, p. 243, t. 89, fig. 1; inter species hujus
sectionis planta glaberrima foliis integerrimis vel obscure paucidentatis
distinctissima.

Herba vel suffrutex 14-3 ped. altus, glaberrimus. Caules erecti, stricti,
robusti, simplices vel parce ramosi, plus minnsve conspicue quadrangn-
lares; internodia 1-2 poll. longa. Folia opposita et decussata, suab-
opposita vel subverticillata, sessilia vel rarius brevissime petiolata, paulum
coriacea, lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, 14-4 poll. longa, 4-9 lin. lata,
acuta vel obtusiuscula, basi angustata, iutegerrima, margine leviter
revoluta, vel obscure paucidentata, supra costa impressa infra elevata.
Racemi terminales, 4-6 poll. rare usque ad 9 poll. longi, laxiuseuli,
bracteati, floribus -nutantibus; pedicelli solitarii, geminati vel interdum
fasciculati, graciles, ascendentes, 33-6 lin. longi, seepe bracteas superantes.
Calyx 5-partitus ; segmenta ovata, 14-2 lin. longa, 13 lin. lata, acuta, mar-
gine membranacea, obsolete ciliolata. Corolla ampla, 7-8 lin. in diam.,
pallide cwrulea vel lilacina, purpureo-maculata, antice saccata, sacco lato
breviter 2-lobato; limbi lobi patentes, breves, rotundati, faucis appendice
breviter obtusa lateraliter compressa. Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa;
filamenta crassiuscula, minute glandnloso-pubescentia ; antherarum
liberarum loculi divaricati. Stylus inclusus, leviter curvatus, minute
glandaloso-pubescens, sursum attenuatus, inconspicue bifidus, Capsula
ovoidea, 6-8 lin. longa, basi 4-44 lin. lata, acuta, profunde 2-valvata.
Semina numerosa, parva, obovoidea, tegumento laxe reticulato.

Angelonia comprises twenty-six species, nearly all of
which are Brazilian. A. angustifolia, Benth., is found in
Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Cuba, and J. salicariz-
folia, Humb. et Bonpl., inhabits Venezuela, Colombia,
British Guiana, and some of the West Indian islands,
while A. hassleriana, Chodat, is at present known onl
from Paraguay. A. integerrima has been collected by
several travellers in the States of Sao Paulo and Rio
Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, and by Balansa and
Hassler in Paraguay. :

Several species of Angelonia, mostly pretty, free-flower-
ing herbs or undershrubs, have appeared from time to
time in European gardens, apparently, in most cases, to
disappear again very quickly. Three have been figured
in this magazine: A. salicariefolia (t. 2478), A. Gardneri

Fesrvary Ist, 1905.

(t. 3754), and A. cornigera (t. 3848), each of which is
easily distinguished from A. integerrima by being pubes-
cent, and by having more or less distinctly toothed leaves.
Perhaps the finest species of all, judging from dried
specimens, is A. tomentosa, Moric., a densely pubescent
plant having large flowers in racemes nearly a foot long.
It does not appear to be common, as the Kew Herbarium
contains only two specimens. Its cultivation has evidently
never been attempted.

The plant which furnished the specimen here figured
was purchased from a continental nursery in 1903, and it
flowered during the autumn in a greenhouse.

Descr.—Herb or undershrub one and a half to three
feet high, glabrous. Stems erect, straight, robust, simple,
or sparingly branched, more or less conspicuously quad-
rangular; internodes one to two inches long. Leaves
opposite and decussate, subopposite or subverticillate,
sessile or very shortly stalked, leathery, lanceolate, or
oblong-lanceolate, one and a half to four inches long, four
to nine lines broad, scarcely acute, narrowed towards the
base, entire or obscurely few-toothed, margin revolute, at
least when dry, midrib impressed above, elevated below.
Racemes terminal, four to six inches, rarely up to nine
inches long, rather lax, bracteate. Flowers nodding ;
pedicels solitary, geminate, or sometimes fascicled, slender,
three and a half to six lines long. Calyz five-partite ;
segments ovate, one and a half to two lines long, about
one line and a quarter broad, acute, membranous on the
margin, obscurely ciliolate. Corolla about seven lines across,
pale mauve or lilac, spotted with purple, broadly saccate in
front ; lobes of the limb short, rounded, spreading ; appen-
dage of the throat short, obtuse, laterally compressed.
Stamens four, included; filaments rather thick, minutely
glandular-pubescent ; anthers free; cells divaricate. Style
included, slightly curved, minutely glandular-pubescent,
narrowed above. Capsule ovoid, six to eight lines long,
four to four and a half lines broad at the base, acute,
deeply two-valved. Seeds numerous, small, obovoid ;
integument loosely reticulate.—S. A. Sxan.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil after the fall of the corolla; 2, vertical section of
the corolla showing the position of the stamens; 3, part of lower lip of the

corolla showing appendage and sac; 4, stamens; 5, pistil, the calyx removed, —
showing disk :—all enlarged.

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BULBOPHYLLUM CRENULATUM.

Madagascar.

Orcuipace&. Tribe EpIpENDRES.

Burporuyttum, Thouars; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 501;
Pfitzer in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenf. v ol. ii. 6, p. 178.

B. crenulatum, Rolfe (sp. nov.); inter species madagascarienses inflores-
centiis clavatis sepalis lateralibus crenulatis et ovario hexaptero alis
serrulatis distincta.

Herba epiphytica rhizomate valido lignoso. Pseudobulbi late oblongi, tetra-
goni, diphylli, 14-1} poll. longi, 1 poll. lati. Folia elliptico-oblonga,
obtusa, subsessilia, 2-3 poll. longa, 9 lin. lata, coriacea. Scapi suberecti,
crassiusculi, 5-6 poll. longi, vaginis ovato-oblongis apiculatis basi tubu-
losis vestiti; racemi pendali, 2 poll. longi, densiflori; rhachis clavata,
crassiuscula, sordide purpurea. Bracteze transverse oblong, obtuse,
1 lin. long, purpures. Flores 2 lin. longi. Ovarium latum, hexangulum,
alis serrulatis. Sepalum posticum ovatum, obtusum, trinervium ; lateralia
in corpus latum rotundum bilobum margine crenulatum connata, flava,
rubro-venosa. Petala lineari-oblonga, obtusa, l-nervia. Labellum in
cavo sepalorum lateralium inclusum, ovatum, obtusum, carnosum, mar-
gine paullo recurvum; discus callo obscure quinquelobo instructus.
Columna latissima, alis tridenticulatis, pede basi lato sursum attenuato.

Bulbophyllum is a large and remarkably polymorphic
genus, extending throughout the tropics where the climatic
conditions are favourable. No less than eighteen species
have been figured in the present work, the remarkable
B. Weddelti, Reichb. f., a native of Brazil, as recently as
last June (t. 7958), when some particulars of the characters
and geographical distribution of the genus were given.
The present species is a very different plant, a native of
Madagascar, whence it was sent to the late Hermann
Wendland, of Herrenhausen, Hanover, by the unfortunate
Johannes Braun, who died at Antananarivo some years
ago. It is one of a number of species discovered by him.
‘I'he plant figured flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden,
Glasnevin, in January, 1904,and Mr. F. W. Moore, A.L.S.,
furnished particulars of its origin.

Its exact affinity is somewhat doubtful. In general
appearance it resembles the species of the B. clavatum
group, which as at present understood is represented in
the Mascarene islands, the Philippines, and ‘Tropical

Feprvary Isr, 1905.

America, but the inflorescence and flowers are more like
those of the Indian B. cylindraceum, Lindl., in which the
bulbs are practically absent, monophyllous, and the leaves
long petioled. In such a diversified genus it is not always
certain which set of resemblances best represent genetic
affinities. In any case B. crenulatum has one near ally,
namely, B. robustum, Rolfe, based on materials collected
in Madagascar by the Rev. R. Baron, F.L.S. (nn. 2324,
2723), which is quite similar in habit and floral structure,
but is more robust, has narrower lateral sepals, and the
ovary is without the very characteristic serrulate wings of
the present one.

Descr.—An epiphyte with stout, woody rhizomes. Bulbs
broadly oblong, quadrangular, two-leaved, about an inch
and a half long, an inch broad. Leaves elliptical-oblong,
obtuse, subsessile, two to three inches long, nine lines —
broad, coriaceous. Scapes suberect, stoutish, five to six
inches high, clothed with about six ovate-oblong apiculate
sheaths four to six lines long, and tubular at the base;
raceme drooping, two inches long, with a thickened, clavate __
rhachis, dense-flowered, dull purple. Bracts transversely
oblong, obtuse, one line long, purple. Flowers two lines” r
long. Ovary stout, with six serrulate angles or narrow
wings. Dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse, three-nerved ; lateral
pair united into a broadly rounded, bilobed, fleshy organ,
with serrulate margin, colour yellow, with reddish nerves.
Petals linear-oblong, obtuse, one-nerved. Lip sunk into a
cavity formed by the lateral sepals, ovate, obtuse, very
fleshy, with a somewhat recurved margin and an irregular —
obscurely five-lobed callus on the disc. Column very —
short and broad, with a pair of broad tridenticulate

teeth ; foot short and broad, with a narrow attachment to
the limb.—R. A. Rourz.

Fig. 1, bract; 2, flower; 3, the same with the sepals removed; 4, lip;

6, column showing the teeth and foot; 6, anther case; 7, pollinia :—all much
enlarged. ;

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GNIDITA potystacuya,
South Africa,

THYMELZACEM, Tribe EuTHYMELEHE.

Guipia, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 197; Engl. &
Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 6, A. p. 226.

Gnidia polystachya, Berg. Descr. Pl. Cap. Bon. Spei, p. 123 (1767); Thunb.
Fil. Cap. ed Schultes, p. 380; ex affinitate G. pinifoliex, Linn., a qua foliis
floribusque brevioribus et petalis 8 glabris differt.

Frutex 1-4-pedalis, ramis adpresse pubescentibus. Folia sexpe conferta,
interdum sparsa, patentia vel subimbricata, 13-6 lin. longa, 4-3 lin. lata,
linearia, acuta vel subobtusa, dorso carinata, glabra. Fores terminales,
capitati, foliis sublatioribus involucrati. Calyw« flavus, extra interdum
ruber, tenuiter pubescens; tubus 4-6 lin. longus, superne leviter infundi-
buliformis ; lobi 1-1} lin. longi, $-1 lin. lati, ovati vel elliptico-oblongi,
obtusi vel subacuti. Petala 8, ori tubi inserta, }-3 lin. longa, oblonga
vel lineari-oblonga, apice obtusa, emarginata, breviter bifida vel oblique
dentata, glabra, alba. Stamina 8, biseriata; filamenta brevissima;
antherz lineari-oblonge, 4 superiores exseri@, 4 inferiores inclusz.
Ovarium oblongum, apice pilosum; stylus oblique terminalis, filiformis,
glaber, inclusus ; stigma capitatum, piliferum.—G@uidia carinata, Thunb.
Prodr. p. 76 (1794) ; Meisner in DC. Prodr. vol. xiv. p. 588; G. pinifolia,
Wendl. Beobacht. p. 15, t 2, f.11, non Linn. G. simpler, Andr. Bot.
Rep. vol. i. +. 70. G. imberbis, Dryand. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, vol. ii.
(1811) p. 412; Bot. Mag. t. 1463; Lodd. Bot. Cat. t. 1958.

A figure of this pretty shrub was long ago published at
t. 1463 of the Botanical Magazine, under the name of
G. imberbis, but the form there depicted is so unlike the
present one in habit, that it might be doubted if the two
plates represented the same species. Upon examining the
Kew material, however, I can find no specific distinction
between them, the apparent difference being in habit only,
due to variations in the mode of branching, of which I
find three principal modifications: 1, with rather long,
simple flowering branchlets; 2, shorter flowering branch-
lets arranged in a corymbose manner, which appears to
be the most common form of the plant; 3, the form here
figured, with short flowering branchlets racemosely
arranged, on much elongated growths.

The last is very ornamental. Mr. Lynch writes that it
is a very free-growing, densely branched shrub, five to

Fesruary Ist, 1905.

six feet high, and two feet six inches through. In habit
it is light and graceful, and it bears hard pruning without
‘detriment to its appearance when it has made fresh
growth. It succeeds very well in a cool greenhouse, _
growing in the usual mixture of half each of peat and loam
with some sana.

Like many others of the family to’ which it be ongs, —
G. polystachya is remarkably heterostyled, since I find no
fewer than three different lengths of style, accompanied
by relative differences in the length of the permanent and
deciduous parts of the calyx-tube, but apparently without
a corresponding difference in the position of the anthers; —
nor do these sexual modifications appear to correspond to-
the different kinds of habit, which latter are perhaps local —
or individual modifications of the plant, which is found
distributed along the coast region of South Africa from
Caledon Division eastward to Bathurst Division. The
specimen figured is from a plant grown in Cambridge
Botanic Garden, which was raised from seed obtained
from Warsaw Botanic Garden, and communicated in
March, 1904, by Mr. R. I. Lynch, who states that he
made good use of this plant in the decorations for the
King and Queen at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
on the occasion-of the opening of the Botanical and other
Laboratories on March Ist, 1904. The other two forms
are also in cultivation, but are not so ornamental as that
here pictured.

Descr.—A shrub one to four feet high, pubescent on
the branches with rather long adpressed hairs. Leaves
alternate, usually crowded, sometimes scattered, spreading
or ascending, and more or less imbricate, one and a half to
six lines long, one-third to three-fourths of a line broad,
lmear, acute, or subobtuse, keeled on the back, glabrous.
Flowers in inyolucrate heads, terminating the branchlets, —
which in the form figured are short and racemosely
arranged along the main branches. JInvolucral bracts like —
the leaves, but usually broader. Calye yellow, or some-—
times red outside where exposed to the sun, thinly covered —
with long adpressed hairs outside; tube four to six lines
long, slightly funnel-shaped at the upper part; lobes one
to one and a quarter line long, three-quarters to one line —
broad, ovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Petals —

eight at the mouth of the calyx-tube, half to two-thirds of
a line long, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, emarginate,
shortly bifid or obliquely and obtusely toothed at the apex.
Stamens in two series, with very short filaments; anthers
linear-oblong, the four upper exserted, the four lower in-
cluded. Ovary oblong, with a tuft of hairs at the
apex; style obliquely terminal, filiform, glabrous, included,
es variable in length; stigma capitate, hairy.—N. E.
3ROWN.

Fig. 1, leaf; 2, involucral bract; 3, flower; 4, flower laid open; 5 and

6, stamens; 7, pistil :—all enlarged.

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ROMNEYA TRICHOCALYX.
California.

PapavERACE&. Tribe RomNEYEA,
Romyeya, Harv; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 74, t. 3.

Romneya trichocalyx, Lustw. in Proc. Calif. Acad. Se. 8rd series, vol. i.
p- 183, t. 11, f. 4; G. Nicholson in Gard. Chron. 1902, vol. ii. p. 190; W. H.
l.c. 1904, vol. ii. p. 163; a C. Coulteri, Harv. differt imprimis calyce
dense setoso. :

Herba caulibus lignescentibus, a basi ramosa, ramis crassiusculis divaricatis,
usque ad 5-ped. alta, undique glauca, passim setulis paucis instructa.
Folia caulina petiolata, crassa, demum coriacea, pinnatifida, quam inter-
nodia longiora, maxima circiter 5 poll. longa, sursum gradatim minora,
segmentis 7-3 integris vel paucidentatis apice callosis. Pedunculi ter-
minales, uniflori, fere ad calycem foliiferi. lores albi, maximi plane
6 poll. diametro. Sepala 6, fere orbicularia, circiter 8-9 lin. diametro,
imbricata, setosa. Petala sepius 6, sed numero ac circumscriptione
variabilia. Stamina numerosissima, biformia, exteriorum filamentis
longioribus infra medium purpureis, antheris luteis. Carpella circiter
10, stylis brevissimis incurvis. Capsula anguste ovoidea, circiter 9 lin.
longa, densissime setosa, irregulariter dehiscens. Semina numerosissima,
alba, reniformia, scrobiculata, circiter ? lin. longa.—R. Coulteri, Parsons,
Wild Flowers of California, p. 64, cum ic. color., non Harv.

The genus Romneya was founded on R. Coulteri, Harv.,
and named after the Rev. Dr. T. Romney Robinson, ‘‘ the
Astronomer of Armagh.” This, the only other species of
the genus known, was introduced into this country by
Messrs. E. G. Henderson & Son, about 1875. The exact
date of the introduction of I. trichocalyxz, Hastw., into
cultivation is uncertain, because it was at first confused
with R. Coulteri. In 1898 Miss A. Eastwood, Curator of
the Herbarium of the Californian Academy, pointed out
that two distinct species were under cultivation, and
defined them in the place cited above. In 1902 Mr. G.
Nicholson recorded the flowering of R. trichocalyx in the
garden of Mr. H. ©. Baker, Oaklands, Almondsbury,
Gloucestershire, and this is apparently the earliest record
of its cultivation in this country.

R. Coulteri, as may be imagined from the confusion of
the two, very strongly resembles the present plant, but
although introduced so long ago, it has never appeared in

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this Magazine. From a horticultural standpoint there is
little to choose between them. Both require a sheltered,
sunny situation, and their full development depends
greatly upon a warm season. On the Continent they
flourish better than in our insular climate. Nevertheless,
in a favourable situation C. trichocalyx has succeeded very
well at Kew. Writing in the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle” on
September 8rd, Mr. Hackett states that it had been in
flower for two months in a recess on the eastern side of
‘the Palm House. Its early flowering was due to the pro-
tection afforded by its sheltered position, and also, in part,
to its having been covered during the preceding winter.

Seeds were sent to Kew by Miss Eastwood in November, - |

1902. They were sown at once, and the young plants,
after wintering in a cold frame, were placed in their
present position in the spring of 1903. Miss Parsons
says :—‘‘ It must be conceded the queen of all our flowers.
It is not a plant for small gardens, but the fitting adorn-
ment of a park where it can have space, and light, and
air.”

Descr.—A robust, erect, glaucous herb branching from
the base, slightly bristly on the petioles and elsewhere.
Stems about five feet high, thick, becoming woody. Stem-
leaves petioled, thick, at length leathery, pinnatifid, the
largest about five inches long, gradually smaller upwards ;
segments seven to three, entire or sparsely toothed.
Peduncles terminal, one-flowered, leafy almost up to the
calyx. lowers white, the largest fully six inches across.
Sepals six, nearly orbicular, about eight or nine lines in
diameter, overlapping, densely clothed with bristles.
Petals commonly six, but variable in number and outline.
Stamens very numerous ; filaments purple below the middle ;
anthers yellow. Capsule of about ten carpels, narrow-
ovoid, about nine lines long, densely clothed with rigid
bristles, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds very numerous, small,
reniform, white, minutely pitted.—W. Borrinc Hemsuey.

Fig. 1, sepal from the outside, overlapped part petaloid; 2, an outer

stamen; 3 and 4, front and back view of an inner stamen; 5, pistil :—all
enlarged.

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DENDROBIUM rectum.
India.

Orcuyrpaces. Tribe EripenpREs.

Denpropium, Svartz; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.
Pfitzer in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenfam. vol. ii. 6, p. 173.

Dendrobium (§ Eudendrobium) regium, Prain in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng.
vol. lxxi. p. 80; Ro/fe in Orch. Rev. vol. xii. p. 228; aff. D. nobilz, Lindl.,
sepalis petalisque concoloribus labello unguiculato limbo suborbiculato
fauce luteo nec purpurato distincta.

Herba epipbytica, dense cespitosa, 6-12 poll. alta. Caules cylindrici, nodis
paullo incrassatis; internodia 1-1} poll. longa. Folia lanceolato-oblonga,
obtusa, 2-4 poll. longa, 9-10 lin. lata; vagine tubulose, albido-venosz.
Racemi axillares, breves, 2-3-flori. Flores speciosi, pallide roseo-purpurei,
rubro-purpureo-venosi, labelli disco pallide luteo. Bractez late ovato-

oblonga, obtuse, conduplicatea, membranacex, 3 lin. longes. Pedicelli
graciles, circa 13 poll. longi. Sepala oblonga, obtusa; posticum
1} poll. longum; lateralia panllo breviora, subfalcata. Petala ovata,
obtusa, 1} poll. Jonga. Labellum basi unguiculatum; limbus suborbi-
cularis, circa 1 poll. longus, basi convolutus ; discus puberulus. Columna
lata, circa 3 lin. longa. Mentum saccatum, vbtusum, circa 4 poll.
longum.

The Indian species of Dendrobium are among the best-
known of this large and polymorphic genus, more espe-
cially the section Hudendrobium, which contains most of
the species so popular in gardens, and at the present time
it is rare to find any novelty of this section. The present
species is one of the exceptions, and one of the most
remarkable that has appeared for a long time. It was
discovered in a locality somewhat vaguely indicated as
Lower Hindustan, and it flowered in the Royal Botanic
Garden, Calcutta, in 1901, and was shortly afterwards de-
scribed by Lieut.-Col. Prain. A plant sent to Kew flowered
in July last. D. vegium is more deciduous than D. nobdile,
and the period of flowering much later. In habit, however,
the two species are remarkably alike, so much so that,
apart from the rather more prominent veins of the leaf-
sheaths in D. reginm, it is difficult to distinguish them
when out of flower.

D. vegium grows well under the same conditions as the
other deciduous Dendrobia, but, unlike them, does not

Marcu Ist, 1900.

flower immediately after the resting period, and hence
may require somewhat different cultural treatment at this
period.

Descr.—A densely tufted epiphyte, six to twelve inches
high. Stems cylindrical, slightly swollen at the nodes;
internodes rather over an inch long. Leaves lanceolate-
oblong, obtuse, two to four inches long, about nine lines
broad, bright green; sheaths rather shorter than the inter-
nodes, with prominent white veins. Itacemes axillary,
short, two- or three-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate-
oblong, obtuse, conduplicate, about three lines long, mem-
branous. Pedicels slender, about an inch and a quarter
long. Sepals oblong, obtuse; dorsal an inch and a half
long; lateral pair rather shorter and somewhat falcate,
light purple-rose, veins somewhat darker. Petals ovate,
obtuse, as long as the dorsal sepal, and similar in
colour. Jip clawed at the base, then expanded into a
nearly orbicular limb, over an inch broad, convolute at
the base; disc puberulous, light purple-rose, veins rather
darker, and the throat clear yellow, surrounded by a
narrow cream-white zone. Column stout, nearly three
lines long, its foot united with the base of the lateral
sepals, forming a broad, obtuse, saccate chin, over four
lines long; anther-case puberulous.—R. A. Rowe.

_Fig. 1, column with its foot; 2 and 3, anther-case seen from front and
side; 4, pollinia :—ell enlarged.

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ROSA Huvcoxis
Western China.

Rosacex. Tribe Roses.
Rosa, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 625,

Rosa (§ Pimpinellifolie) Hugonis, Hemsl. (sp. nov.); a speciebus hujus
sectionis omnibus habitu, spinis et folioruam forma differt.
Frutex erectus, ztate quinque annorum 4-5 ped. altus. Cuwles recti, graciles,
- basi vix semipoll. diametro, glabri, armati, sed non modo &. platyacanthx
et R. Hex, spinosissimi, crebre lenticellati ramique brunneo-purpurei,
nitidi, fere zequaliter cireum-ramosi, ramis gracilibus arcuato-adscenden-
tibus, ramulis ultimis gracillimis. Acwlei heteromorphi, in ramis sterilibus
cum setis interjecti, recti, maximi basi latiuscule dilatati, sed pleramque
tennes. Folia in ramis floriferis fasciculata, pertenuia, 2-4 poll, longa,
petiolo rhachique filiformi, citissimo glabrescentia, eglandulosa; stipule
anguste, parte libera parva squamiformi; foliola 5-11, preter terminale
longiuscule petiolulatum brevissime petiolulata, ovalia, ovata, oblonga
vel obovata, apice rotundata, basi sepius cuneata, 3-9 lin. longa, per
totam fere circumscriptionem minute serrata. Pedunculi solitarii, quam
folia breviores vel paullolongiores. Flores lutei, circiter 24 poll. diametro.
Calyx extus glaber, levis; lobi lineari-lanceolati, circiter 6 lin. longi,
integri, acutissimi, intus tomentosi. Petala orbiculari-obovata, apice
rotundata vel emarginata. Carpella circiter 12, villosa, stylis parce
pilosis liberis, stigmatibus breviter exsertis crenulatis. Fructus maturus
ignotus.

This elegant, yellow Rose was raised at Kew from
seeds received, with others, from the Keeper of the
Botanical Department of the British Museum, in 1899,
They were collected by Father Hugh (otherwise Pater
Hugo) Scallan, a Catholic missionary, in Western China,
probably in the Province of Shensi or Szechuen. It is
apparently quite hardy at Kew, flowering freely in the
open air. wae

Exception may, perhaps, be taken to its being treated
as a distinct species; but as it certainly deserves a dis-
tinctive name, it seems better to give it one, without
tacking it on to any other. The late Prof. Crépin would
probably have referred it to ‘‘ A. eanthina, Lindl.,” with
which he associated [. platyacantha, Schrenk, and f#.
Ecx, Aitch. Although Sir Joseph Hooker (B. M. t. 7666),
and the late Mr. Franchet (Nouv. Arch. du Mus. Par.
série 2, vol. v. p. 269, t. 15, f. 2) have followed Crepin,
Marcu Ist, 1905.

I am unwilling to add another distinct form or variety or
race to an already confusing combination. ‘To begin
with, R. wanthina, Lindl., was founded upon a figure in
Lambert’s collection, which has apparently not been seen
by any subsequent writer on the subject. All Lindley
says is: A Rose with all the appearance of It. spinosis-
sima, except having no sete and double flowers the colour
of R. sulphurea.” On the other hand, &. platyacantha and
ht. Hex are very different from each other; they have
been fully described, and they are represented in many
herbaria by authentic specimens. Under cultivation

ft. Hugonis flowers much more freely than Rk. Hex, and ie

should have a future.

Father Hugh sent no dried specimen of this Rose, and
the nearest wild specimen I can find, either at Kew or the
British Museum, is from the Ili district, in Chinese
Turkestan, and is named “ R. pimpinellifolia flore luteo ;”
but that has a setulose calyx-tube.

Descr.—An erect shrub, four to five feet high at five
years of age. Stems straight, slender, branching almost

regularly on all sides, purple-brown and shining, moderately

spiny and lenticelled; ultimate lateral branchlets very
slender, curved upwards, brighter coloured. Prickles
various, interspersed with bristles on the sterile branches,
straight, the largest dilated at the base, mostly slender.

Leaves thin, glabrous, two to four inches long, petiole and — 4

rhachis almost thread-like ; stipules very narrow, free part
scale-like ; leaflets five to eleven, almost sessile, oval to
oblong or obovate, three to nine lines long, rounded at
the tip, wedge-shaped at the base, minutely toothed except
near the base. slower-stalks solitary, about as long as
the leaves. Flowers yellow, about two inches and a half
across, Caly« smooth ; lobes linear-lanceolate, very acute,
about half an inch long, entire, tomentose inside. Petals
orbicular-obovate, rounded or notched. Carpels about
twelve, very hairy; styles free, shortly exserted. Fruit
unknown.—W. Borrinc Hemstry.

Fig. 1, a carpel :—enlarged.

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JECHMEA LAVANDULACEA,
West Indies.

BrRoMELIAcCEx. Tribe BROMELIER.

Acura, Ruiz & Pav.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 663: Baker,
Handb. Bromel. p. 82; Mez in DC. Monogr. Phan. vol. ix. p. 176.

4Echmea lavandulacea, C. H. Wright, sp. nov.; species ab iis sectionis
Platyechmex panicola disticha, spicis non pedunculatis, bracteolis ovato- .
oblongis lavandulaceis albo-furfuraceis distingnitar.

Herba acaulis. Folia rosulata, e basi vaginante ligulata, utrinque appresse
lepidota, circa 18 poll. longa, 1? poll. lata, spinis approximatis tenuibus
incurvis instructa, marginibus cartilagineis angustis spinisque rubris.
Panicula disticha, spicis multifloris sessilibus distichis composita; scapa
circa 14 poll. longa, rosea; bractez scariosa, ovato-oblonge, superiores
sensim minores, rosez ;-bracteolw late ovato-oblonge, acuminata, virides,
albo-furfuracew, marginibus scariosis latis lavandulaceis, inferiores apice
aristate. Sepala ovato-lanceolata, coriacea, aristata, viridia, pilosa, 6
lin. longa. Petala oblanceolata, mucronata, atroviolacea, 10 lin. longa,
14 lin. lata prope apicem, squamis albis 23 lin. longis et plicis lanceolatis
duabus 4 lin. longis instructa. Stamina petala sabequantia; anthers
oblong, apiculate, dorsifixe ; filamenta compressa, marginibus hyalinis.
Ovarium pilosum ; stylus filiformis, ramis brevibus spiraliter contortis.

This plant was discovered by Mr. W. E. Broadway,
Curator of the Botanic Garden, Grenada, West Indies, on
rocks overhanging the sea at St. George, in that island.
In 1895 he forwarded plants to Kew, where they flowered
in a stove in July last. The species is very distinct, and
is characterized by the distichous arrangement of the
panicle-branches and flowers. The broad lavender-coloured
margins of the bracteoles, resembling in colour the flowers
of some species of Statice, candied all over with white
seurf, harmonize with the deep violet petals, and thus
avoid that sharp contrast in colour so often found in the
inflorescence of plants of this order.

Amongst the species allied to the present, A7. pubescens,
Baker, is distinguished by the leaves being smaller and
bearing spines, which are recurved, only in the lower part,
while its bracteoles are shorter, broader, and more abruptly
acuminate. 1. lingulata, Baker, has the panicle branches
inserted all round the axis. 4. dichlamydea, Baker, has
the spikes distichously arranged, but naked in the lower
three inches.

Marcu Ist, 1905.

Mr. J. G. Baker (/.c.) enumerates 128 species of Aehmea,
but seven years later Dr. Mez (l.c.), after describing
several new species, and restoring Canistrum and Hohen-
bergia to generic rank, reduces the number to 114. All
these are natives of Tropical America and the West
Indies.

We do not find any figure resembling the present plant
in the magnificent collection of drawings, now at Kew,
formerly belonging to the late Prof. Ed. Morren.

Descr.—A stemless perennial. Leaves rosulate, ligulate
from a sheathing base, about eighteen inches long and an
inch and three-quarters wide, minutely lepidote on both
surfaces; margins narrow, cartilaginous, red; spines
approximate, slender, red, curved upwards. Panicle dis-
tichous, formed of numerous, sessile, many-flowered, dis-
tichous spikes; scape about fourteen inches long, rosy ;
bracts scarious, ovate-oblong, decreasing in size upwards,
rosy ; bracteoles broadly ovate-oblong, acuminate (the lower
aristate), green covered with white scurf, margins broad,
scarious, lavender-coloured. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, aris-
tate, coriaceous, green, pilose, six lines long. Petals
oblanceolate, mucronate, with two lanceolate folds about
four lines long on the upper surface, deep violet, ten lines
long, a line and a half wide near the apex, basal scales
white, two lines and a half long. Stamens about as long
as the petals; anthers oblong, apiculate, dorsifixed near
the middle; filaments compressed, with hyaline margins.
Ovary pilose; style filiform, branches short, spirally
twisted.—C. H. Wricut.

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the whole plant :—1—4 enlarged, 5 much reduced.

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NICOTIANA FrorGETIANA,

Brazil.

SotanacEsz. Tribe CEsTRINES.

Nicotiana, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. ii. p. 906; Comes,
Monographie du Genre Nicotiana.

Nicotiana forgetiana, Hort. Sand. Verulamii; species sectionis Petunioides,
G. Don, et ex affinitate WV. bonariensis, Lehm., a qua foliis superioribus
lineari-lanceolatis, nec repandis, calycis lobis valde inzequalibus et corolle
lobis medio costatis differt.

Herba annua, 2-3-pedalis, a basi ramosa. Folia papyracea, pubescentia,
radicalia oblongo-lanceolata, maxima circiter pedalia, obtusa, deorsum in
petiolum alatum attenuata, leviter undulata; caulina similia sed minora
et ovata, petiolis decurrentibus. Paniculze ample, laxe ramos, ramis
gracillimis glanduloso-pubescentibus; bracteze inferiores foliacexw, an-
gust, acutew, sursum gradatim minores, superiores minute. Pedicelli
filiformes, quam flores breviores. Calyx hispidulus, circiter semipollicaris,
inzequaliter 5-dentatus, dentibus fere setiformibus longioribus tubum
excedentibus. Corolla anguste infundibuliformis vel fere hypocrateri-
formis, circiter 1} poll. longa, parcissime pilosula, tubo prope basin
attenuato; limbus patens, circiter 1 poll. diametro; segmenta subsequalia,
deltoidea, venosa, costata, obtusiuscula. Stamina inclusa; filamenta
basi corollee adnata, hirsuta, parte libera filiformi basi geniculata, glabra.
Pistillum glabrum, stylo incluso, stigmate filiformi. Capsula mihi —
ignota.

The name Nicotiana forgetiana has appeared in most of
the gardening papers; but, so far as I am aware, no
description of the plant has hitherto been published. It
was introduced from South Brazil by Messrs. Sander &
Sons of St. Albans, through their collector, Mr. Forget,
about four years ago, and it is one of the parents of the
beautiful hybrid N. Sanderex, which is being advertised by
the same firm. It appears to be as free a grower as the
well-known N. alata, Link. & Otto (syn. N. affinis, Moore),
which is the other parent of N. Sanderw, and now that
hybrid breeding has been started between these and other
species we may expect to see the genus Nicotiana occupying
a much more prominent position in gardens than hitherto,
Although N. forgetiana itself is a highly ornamental plant,
it is not offered for sale, but it will be represented in
gardens by the more brilliantly coloured hybrids. :

Marcu Ist, 1905.

The most recent monograph of the genus * contains
descriptions of forty-one species, under many of which
several varieties are defined, some of which have generally
been regarded as distinct species. The author also
describes and discusses the various kinds cultivated for
smoking in all parts of the world, with references to
ficures and existing literature. For instance, under N.
Tabacum, var. havanensis, he first enumerates the
“Genuine,” or those sorts obtained without crossing,
with their commercial names, and the countries in which
they are cultivated. Following these come the hybrids _
belonging to this group, the parentage of which is seb
forth.

Our figure of N. forgetiana was prepared from specimens
supplied by Messrs. Sander.

Descr.—An annual herb, two to three feet high, branching
from the base. Leaves papery, soft, pubescent; radical
oblong-lanceolate, largest about a foot long, obtuse,
tapering downwards into a winged petiole, slightly undu-
late; cauline similar, but smaller, ovate, with decurrent ‘
blades. Panicles ample, loosely branched; branches very __
slender, glandular-pubescent ; lower bracts leafy, narrow, _
acute, gradually smaller upwards; uppermost minute. _
Pedicels filiform, shorter than the flowers. Calyx small, j
clothed with harsh hairs, five-toothed ; teeth unequal, very
slender, rigid. Corolla narrow, funnel-shaped, about one
inch and a quarter long and one inch in diameter, very
sparsely hairy; segments of the limb nearly equal,
triangular, obtuse. Stamens included; filaments hairy at
the base as far as they are attached to the corolla, genicu-
late just above the attachment, thence filiform and
glabrous. Ovary glabrous, as well as the filiform included
style-—W. Borrinc Hems.ey.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open, showing the attachment of the
stamens; 3, ovary :—all enlarged. ge

* Monographie du Genre Nicotiana... par le Dr. Prof. O. Comes. —
Naples, 1899. =

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CATASETUM caristyAnum.

Amazon District.

ORCHIDACER. Tribe VANDEA.

Catasetum, Rich.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 551; Rolfe in
Journ. Linn. Soe. vol, xxvii. p. 206.

C. christyanum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1882, i. p. 588; 1895, ii.
pp- 617, 618, fig. 104; species ex affinitate C. saccati, Lindl., sepalis
petalisque angustioribus, labello trifido laciniis refractis distinctum.

Herba epiphytica, circa 1 ped. alta. Psewdobulbi fusiformi-oblongi, 4-6 poll.
longi, vaginis vestiti. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta vel acuminata,
plicata, 3-5-nervia, 6-9 poll. longa, pallide viridia. Scapzi axillares, prope
basin pseudobulbi -producti, arcuati, circa 1 ped. longi, prope basin
vaginis tubulosis vestiti; racemi laxi, multiflori. Bractez oblong,
acute, paullo concave, 4-8 lin. longs. Pedicelli 1-2 poll. longi. Flores
circa 4 poll, diametro, pallide virides, sepala et petala_rufo-brunneo-
maculata, labellum viride brunneo suffusum, os sacci album. Sepala
patentia, lineari-lanceolata, acuminata vel acuta, circa 2 poll. longa;
lateralia subfalcata. Petala sepalis similia cum sepalo postico galeam
formantia. Labellum trifidam, lobis reflexis; lobus intermedius late
ovato-oblongus vel suborbicularis, apiculatus, circa 6 lin. longus, margine
profunde fimbriatus, lobi laterales rotundati, profunde fimbriati; saccus
latus, obtusus ; os transverse oblongum, medio constrictum ; callus conicus,
obtusus. Colwmna clavata, circa 1 poll. longa; antenne graciles,
divergentes ; anthera longe apiculata.

Catasetum is one of the most remarkable genera of
Orchids. Its flowers are quaint in structure, very poly-
morphic in the different sections of which it is composed,
and unisexual, the two sexes being completely diverse in
appearance. The females are produced very rarely, and
of the sixty or more described species they are only known
in about a third. They are also remarkably uniform in
_ appearance, as compared with the other sex, and indeed

‘difficult to determine in the absence of the males. ‘This
diversity is very well illustrated by the plate of C. Randii,
Rolfe (B. M. t. 7470), which is the solitary example out
of nineteen species already figured in this Magazine where
both sexes are represented.

Catasetum christyanum was originally flowered by Mr.
Thomas Christy, F.L.S., at Sydenham, and was. described
in 1882, but since that time it has appeared in numerous
collections. It is a striking species, most nearly allied to
C. saccatum, Lindl., which seems to have been lost sight of

Aprin Ist, 1905.

for some years. The flowers figured are males, the
females being unknown, though two flowers appeared in
the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart.,in November,
1894, which were intermediate in structure, being mostly
male, but having the saccate lip of the female.

The plant figured was purchased in 1894. It flowered
in a tropical house at Kew in early winter; but it is not
quite constant in its period of flowering.

Descr.—A tufted epiphyte about a foot high. Bulbs
fusiform-oblong, four to six inches long, clothed with the
persistent leaf-sheaths. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute or
acuminate, plicate, three- to five-nerved, six to nine inches
long, light green. Scape axillary from near the base of
the bulb, a foot or more long ; raceme lax, many-flowered.
Bracts oblong, acute, somewhat concave, four to eight lines
long. Pedicels one to two inches long. lowers about
four inches across, light green, heavily blotched with red-
brown on the sepals and petals, the lip brown and green
with a white area round the mouth of the sac. Sepals
spreading, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, about two
inches long, lateral pair somewhat faleate. Petals similar
to the sepals and parallel to the dorsal, forming a narrow
hood over the column. Lip strongly three-lobed ; lobes
reflexed; front lobe broadly ovate-oblong or nearly
orbicular, apiculate, nearly half an inch long; margin
deeply fimbriate; side lobes rounded, shorter than the
front lobe, deeply fimbriate; sac broad and obtuse, the
mouth transversely oblong, somewhat constricted in the
middle. Column clavate, over an inch long, bearing a
long, slender, curved appendage at the summit; rostellar

arms long and slender, one curved forward over the mouth

of the spur, the other descending by the side of the
column ; anther-case bearing a long, slender appendage at
the apex.—R. A. Rone,

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DERRIS ateorusra.

a China.

Leecuminosa. Tribe DALBERGIE&.
Derris, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. 1. p. 549.

Derris alborubra, Hemsi/. (sp. nov.); ex affinitate D. uliginose, Benth., a
qua foliolis emarginatis, alabastris sericeis et legumine circumalato
differt.

Frutex scandens vel vagans, saltem 18-pedalis, praeter inflorescentiam glaber.
Rami crassiusculi, verruculosi, juniores virides, internodiis spe elon-
gatis. Folia persistentia, alterna, petiolata, maxima 6-7 poll. longa,
petiolo valido basi incrassato supra ut rhachi canaliculato; foliola seepius
5, interdum 3, opposita, breviter petiolulata, coriacea, supra atroviridia,
insequalia, inferiora minora, obovato-oblonga, szepius 24-3} poll. longa,
suprema interdum minora, apice rotundata et emarginata, basi rotundata
vel rare subcuneata; costa supra impressa, subtus elevata, venis
primariis lateralibus utrinque circiter 9 inconspicuis; stipule minute,
citissimo deciduw. lores odorati, in paniculas laterales et terminales
angustas interdum usque ad 1 ped. longas pendentes dispositi, ramuli
pedicellique graciles, puberuli; bractew bracteoleque minutissime;
pedicelli quam flores breviores. Caly« ruber, primum sericeo-hirsutus,
deinde glabrescens, oblique campanulatus, vix 2 lin. longus, obscure
bilabiatus, lobis brevissimis antico longiore. Petala alba, unguiculata, 5-6
lin. longa, apice puberula; vexillum fere orbiculatum, cucullatum, emar-
ginatum, inappendiculatum; alarum limbus basi biauriculatus, apice
obtusus; carine petala dolabriformia, apice rotundata, supra medium
connata. Stamina monadelpha, dorsali basi libero; antheree uniformes.
Ovarium sessile, pubescens, 4-ovulatum; stylus supra medium glaber,
stamina paullo excedens. Leguwmen planum, coriaceum, glabrum,
utringue alatum, sepissime monospermum, oblique ellipticum, circiter 1}
poll. longum, interdum pleiospermum et longius. Semina perfecta non
visa.

A plant of this pretty, evergreen climber was sent to
Kew from Hong Kong, in 1900, by Mr. C. Ford, I.8.0.,
under the name of Derris Fordii, Oliv. He also sent pods,
containing imperfect seeds, bearing the same name. It
was taken for granted that Mr. Ford was familiar with
the D. Fordii, Oliv. (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1771), as it was
founded upon specimens supplied by him. Last August
the plant now figured flowered profusely in the Palm
House, where it covered some square yards of the roof,
and it proved to be a different species from D, Fordit, but
identical with specimens in the Kew Herbarium from
Hainan, collected by Dr. A. Henry (8228 and 8394).

Another Chinese species of Dervis, from Kwantung,
identified by the late Dr. Hance with D. oblonga from

Aprit Ist, 1905,

Ceylon (see Jowrn. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 199) proves, as
was suspected, to be distinct. It resembles D. alborubra
in having a red calyx, and in other particulars.

D. Hancei, Hemsl. (sp. nov.); D. oblonga, Benth., similis ab ea tamen
foliolis paucioribus et calyce extus glabro differt.

Deser.—A climbing, evergreen shrub, with stems at
least eighteen feet in length, glabrous, except in the in-
florescence. Branches green when young. Leaves pinnate,
largest six to seven inches long; petiole thickened at the
base, channelled above; leaflets usually five, occasionally
three, shortly petiolulate, coriaceous, dark green above,
obovate-oblong, two inches and a half to three inches and
a half long, uppermost even smaller, rounded and notched
at the tip; midrib sunk below the upper surface ; venation
exceedingly fine. lowers in lateral and terminal panicles,
sometimes a foot or more in length, fragrant; branches
and pedicels slender, slightly hairy. Calyx red, silky-
hairy at first, obliquely campanulate, about two lines deep,
obscurely lobed. Petals white, clawed; standard almost
orbicular; limb of the wing-petals two-eared at the base ;
kee] rounded at the tip. Stamens monadelphous. Ovary
sessile, pubescent; ovules four. Pod flat, coriaceous,
glabrous, winged on both sides, almost always one-seeded,
obliquely oval, about an inch and a half long. Seeds not
Seen in a perfect condition —W. Bortinc Hemsuey.

Mig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, standard; 3, a wing-petal; 4, a keel-petal;:
5, androecium ; 6 and 7, anthers; 8, pod; 9, seed attached :—all except 8 and 9
enlarged.

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BURBIDGEA scuizocueina.
Malaya.

ScrtaMIne&. Tribe ZINGIBERE.

BursipeEa, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 6403; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.
lil. p. 647; Engler, Pflanzenr. Zingiber. p. 281.

Burbidgea schizocheila, Hort. Buitenz. ec W. Hackett in Gard. Chron.
1904, vol. ii. p. 301, a B. nitida, Hook. f., lamina labelli quam staminis
connectivum obtusum angustiore et perianthii segmentis interioris
aurantiaco-luteis differt.

Caules tenues, 9-15 poll. alti. Folia elliptica, acuminata, basi cuneata, 5
poll. longa, 3 poll. lata, supra viridia, subtus brunneo-purpureo tincta,
marginibus angustis brunneo-purpuratis; vagine 5 poll. longw, rubro-
purpures; ligula scariosz; petioli 14 poll. longi, brunnei. Panicula
terminalis, 9-12-flora. Calyx tubularis, 9 lin. longus, 2 lin. diam.,
breviter bidentatus. Petala 2 poll. longa, lutea, posticum ovatum, apice —
longe cucullatum, 5 lin. latum, lateralia oblonga, obtusa, 3 lin. lata.
Labellum bifidum, apice intus pilosum. Anthera 3 lin. longa, connectivo
apice in appendicem obcuneatam obtusam irregulariter dentatam pro-
ducto. Ovariwm viride; stylus filiformis, stigmate triangulari, medio
excavato.

The plant was received at Kew in 1903 from the
Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens, under the name of Burbidgea
schizocheila, but it does not appear to have yet been
described, and no information is available as to its original
habitat. The only other species of the genus B. mitida,
Hook. f. (B. M. t. 6403), is a native of Borneo.

In habit Burbidgea resembles Hedychiwm, but the
flowers are destitute of any trace of lateral staminodes.

There is a drawing at Kew of a plant collected in Borneo ©
by Mr. (now Sir Hugh) Low, which much resembles this
species, but the corolla is of a similar colour to that of
B. nitida.

Descr.—Stem slender, nine to fifteen inches high.
Leaves elliptic, acuminate, cuneate at the base, five inches
long, three inches wide, green above, narrowly edged and
tinged beneath with brownish-purple; sheaths five inches
long, claret colour; ligules scarious ; petioles an inch and
a half long, brown. Panicles terminating the leafy stems,
nine- to twelve-flowered. Calye tubular, nine lines long,
two lines in diameter, shortly two-toothed. Corolla two
inches long, orange-yellow ; posterior petal ovate, five lines

Aprit Ist, 1905.

wide, long-cucullate at the apex; lateral petals oblong,
obtuse, three lines wide. Lip bifid, pilose inside at the
apex. Anther three lines long ; connective produced at the
apex into an obcuneate, obtuse, irregularly toothed append-
age, rather longer than the lip. Ovary green; style
filiform; stigma triangular, hollowed in the middle.—

0. H. Wrrcn. :

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style; 4, style and stigma :—all enlarged.

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COTONEASTER Rorunpirorta.
ae North India.

Rosacea. Tribe Pome.
CotongasterR, Medik.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 627.

Cotoneaster rotundifolia, Wall. Cat. n. 663; Lind/. Bot. oS sub tab. 1229 ;
Saunders Ref. Bot. vol. i. t. 54; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii, p.:386;
inter affines fructus magnitudine distincta.

Frutex suberectus, 3—4-pedalis, dense ramosus, ramis seepe distichis pubescen-
tibus. Folia decidua, disticha, distincte petiolata, crassiuscula, sapius
fere orbicularia, maxima circiter 4 poll. diametro, interdum obovata,
apiculata, glabrescentia, subtns pallidiora; stipule lineares, persistentes.
Flores roseo-albi, circiter } poll. diametro, brevissime pedicellati. Calyx —
glabrescens, lobis rotundatis ciliolatis in fructu persistentibus. Petala
fere orbicularia. Stamina quam petala breviora. Fructus «turbinatus,
circiter 4 poll. longus, saturate coccineus.—C. microphylla, var wva-ursi,
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1187; C. prostrata, Baker, Saunders Ref. Bot. t.53.

It is a singular thing, that with the exception of C.
laviflora, Jacq. (t. 3519), which is not a particularly
showy species, the ornamental genus Cotoneaster has been,
till now, unrepresented in this Magazine. C. rotundifolia
is one of the most desirable for winter decoration, and the
only one in the open collection at Kew that carried its
berries through the severe frosts and destructive fogs of
the last season. In the middle of February it was still in
excellent condition south of the Temperate House.

C. horizontalis, Dene., was also very striking at Kew last
season, though it did not retain its beauty so long as
C. rotundifolia. A coloured figure of it is given in the
«“ Revue Horticole” (1889, p. 348), with smaller pieces of
several other species for comparison.

Among the more recently introduced species of Chinese
origin, . pannosa, Franch., and CO. Franchetii, Bois, are
specially deserving of notice. They are quite distinct
from the present one in having slender branches, and con-
sequently a more graceful habit. There is a coloured
figure of the former in *‘ Le Jardin ” (1898, p. 120), which
represents the somewhat smaller, deep crimson berries as
clustered at the ends of short, lateral branchlets. The
latter is reported from elevations of above 8,000 feet in
Eastern Tibet. :

Aprit ist, 1905,

Descr.-—A. suberect, densely-branched shrub, three to
four feet high. Branches more or less in two rows, |
pubescent. Leaves deciduous, usually in two rows, dis-
tinctly stalked, rather thick, usually round, about half
an inch across, sometimes obovate, apiculate, becoming —
glabrous. Flowers pink and white, about half an inch
across, very shortly stalked. Calyx almost smooth; lobes
rounded, finely ciliate on the margin. Petals almost
round. Stamens shorter than the petals. Fruit toy
shaped, abont half an inch long, deep crimson.—
W. Bortinc Hemsizy. — .

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PINANGA MacuLata,
: Philippine Islands,

Patma. Tribe ARECEA.

Pinanea, Blume; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p, 884; Beccari,
Malesia, vol. iii. pp, 110 et 145,

Pinanga maculata, Porte ex Lem. in Jil. Hort. vol. x. (1863), t, 361; Drude
in Bot. Zeit. 1877, p. 636, t. 5, figs. 12-13; habitu P. Veitchii, Wendl.,
similis sed floribus spiraliter dispositis differt. :

Caules ceespitosi, tenues, 35 ped, alti, brunneo-purpurei. Folia elliptica, fere
ad medium bifida, apice serrata, maculata; vagina longe fusiformis ;
petiolus brevis. Spadia infra-foliacea, recurva, pilosa, indivisa; flores
spiraliter dispositi, ternatim aggregati, intermedio femineo, lateralibus
masculis. Flores $; calycis lobi late triangulares, breviter acuminati;
petala suborbicularia ; stamina numerosa, filamentis brevibus, ovoideis,
antheris oblongis, quam filamenta 2-3-plo longioribus, Flores ? rubri:
sepala petalaque orbicularia vel fere reniformia, ciliata ; staminodia nulla;
ovarium breviter oblongum, stigmatibus 3, sessilibus; ovulum parvam,
basale. Fructus ignotus.

Like many other garden palms, this was originally
described from a barren plant, and we have been unable
to find any record of its flowering, beyond a description
and figure of the ovule by Drude, until the subject of this
plate flowered in a stove at Kew in November last. The
flowers then produced confirm the original guess that the
plant is a Pinanga, in which genus Beccari enumerated it
as an imperfectly known species. Our plant was received
in 1900 from the Botanic Garden, Penang. It is a native
of humid forests in the Philippines at altitudes of 1,200-
1,500 feet, and is said to flower there first when about
nine feet high, The Kew plant, however, produced
flowers when about one-third that height.

The genus Pinanga is represented at Kew by nearly a
dozen species in cultivation; but, among small Palms, they
do not flower so freely as the members of the New World
Chamedorea. The only other Pinanga figured in this
Magazine (t, 6581) is the very pretty FP. patula, Blume,
which formerly flowered and fruited annually at Kew, but
it is no longer represented in the collection.

About half a dozen species are figured in the “ Annales

Apri. Ist, 1905.

du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg,’ from the rich
collection of Palms cultivated in that renowned garden.
Deser.—Stems ceespitose, slender, about three and a half
feet high, brownish-purple. Leaves elliptical, bifid nearly
to the middle, sometimes with a pair of basal leaflets,
lobes serrate at the apex, green, with darker spots; sheath
long, spindle-shaped; petiole short. Spadie below the
leaves, recurved, pilose, simple ; flowers in spirally arranged
groups of three, the central female, the lateral male and
deciduous before the female opens. Male flowers: calyx-
lobes broadly triangular, shortly acuminate; petals sub-
orbicular ; stamens many, filaments short, anthers oblong,
two or three times as long as the filaments. Semale
flowers bright red: sepals and petals orbicular or almost
reniform, ciliate; staminodes none; ovary shortly oblong;
stigmas three, sessile ; ovule small, basal—C. H. Waricar.

Figs. 1 and 2, male flowers; 3, calyx; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, female flowers;
7, the same with the sepals removed; 8, longitudinal section of the pistil :—
all except 1 enlarged.

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PRUNUS Psevpo-cerasvs.
Japan and China.

Rosacex.—Tribe PRUNE.
Prunus, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609.

Prunus Pseudo-Cerasus, Lind/. wn Trans. Hort. Soc. vol.. vi. (1826), p. 90;
Forbes § Hemsley, in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 221; affinis P. Ceraso,
L., et P. avium, L., differt foliis cuspidato-serratis, bracteis foliaceis
majusculis plernmque fimbriatis vel fimbriato-laciniatis, receptaculo
infundibulari, a priore etiam drupa minore.

Arbor in patria alta, facie P. Cerasit ramis oblique erectis cortice brunneo

_ tectis, ramulis juventute tenere villosis mox glabratis. Folia post flores
evoluta, elliptica vel ad ovatum vel obovatum vergentia, subabrapte
acuminata, acumine seepe longo angusto, basi rotundata, 2-6 poll. longa,
14-3 poll. lata, dense ineequaliter cuspidato-serrata, plerumque juventute
pubescentia, cito glabrata, raro jam in gemma glabra, nervis lateralibus
utrinque 6-11; petiolus 1-14 poll. longus, apicem versus biglandulosus ;
stipule anguste lineares vel fere filiformes 3-1} poll. long, glanduloso-
fimbriatz, caduce. Flores in corymbis 3-5-floris brevissime vel longius-
cule pedunculatis bracteatis; pedunculus basi perulis majusculis szpe
purpurascentibus demum deciduis cinctus; bracteze saltem in corymbis
distincte pedunculatis foliaceew, sepe ample, fimbriate vel fimbriato-
Jaciniate ; pedicelli longiores pollicares. Receptaculum infundibulare.
Sepala ovata vel lanceolata, longitudine receptaculi, integra. Petala
rosea vel alba, late elliptica vel obovato-rotundata, emarginata, patula,
3-* poll. longa. Stamina et stylus glaber petala dimidia squantia.
Drupa pisiformis, nigra, carne parca; putamen subcompressum.—
P. paniculata, Edw. in Bot. Reg. tab. 800 (uon Thunb.). Cerasus
Sieboldtii, Carr. in Rev. Hort. (1866), p. 371 cum tab.; C. lannesiana,
Carr. le. (1872), p. 198 et (1873), p. 351 cum tab.; C. caproniana flore
roseo pleno, Van Houtte in Fl. des Serres, xxi. (1875), p. 141, tab. 2238-39 ;
C. serratifolia, Lindl. ex Carr. l.c. (1877), p. 889 cam tab.; C. Wattereri,
Hort. ex Lavall., Ic. Arb. et Frut. Segrez. p. 119.

Prunus Pseudo-cerasus is a common forest tree of Japan,
and has, for centuries, been cultivated in that country in
numerous varieties, differing mainly in the colour and size
of the flowers, their single or double condition, and in the
degree of pubescence of the young branches and leaves.
So greatly appreciated is this tree in Japan that its
blossoming is the occasion of a great national festival.
The area of the species extends northwards to the island
of Sachalin and the opposite mainland, and through
Northern and Central China to West Szechuen.

It was introduced into this country in a white and
single-flowered form from China in 1819. The pink and

May Ist, 1905.

double-flowered varieties now in cultivation are, however,
of Japanese origin, the first of them (subsequently described
as Oerasus Sieboldtit, Carr.) having been imported from
Japan by Robert Fortune in 1864, The tree flowers with
us in April, before the unfolding of the leaves.

Descr.—A tree, attaining considerable height in its
native country, with obliquely erect, brownish branches,
which when young are more or less pubescent, but soon
become glabrous. Leaves unfolding after the flowers,
elliptic or somewhat obovate or ovate, rather abruptly
contracted into a long and slender point, rounded at the
base, sharply and closely cuspidate-serrate, 2-6 in. long,

1_3 in. broad, with 6-11 nerves on each side; petiole 1-13
in. long, with two glands in the upper part; stipules
narrow-linear or filiform, with gland-tipped fimbria,

caducous. Flowers in 8—5-flowered corymbs on very short — a

or long peduncles; peduncles surrounded at the base by
rather large, often purplish bud-scales; bracts, at least in
the distinctly peduncled corymbs, herbaceous, often large,
fimbriate or fimbriate-laciniate ; pedicels up to over 1 in.

long. eceptacle funnel-shaped. Sepals ovate or lanceo- — =

late, as long as the receptacle, entire. Petals white or
rose-coloured, broad, elliptic or obovate-rotundate, emargi-
nate, 4% in. long, spreading. Stamens and the glabrous
style reaching to the middle of the petals. Drupe of the _
shape and size of a small pea, slightly compressed, black, |

with scanty flesh.—Ovrto Starr.

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RHIPSALIS pisstminis var. sETULOSA.
Brazil.

CactacE&,—Tribe OpuNTIn2.

Rurrsatis, Gertn,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 850; Engl. §
Prantl Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 6A, p. 197.

Rhipsalis dissimilis, A. Schum. var. setulosa, Weber in Rev. Hort. 1892,
p. 428; K. Schum. Gesamtb. der Kakt. p. 647; ab typo perianthii seg-
mentis numerosioribus exterioribus luteolis pallide brunneo-tinctis et
staminibus 80 vel ultra differt.

Planta succulenta, ramosa, 1-14 ped. alta. Caules biformes, furcati vel ver-
ticillatim ramosi; rami 3-6 poll. longi, 3-4 lin. crassi, teretes vel 4-5
angulati, lateribus plaris vel sulcatis, nunc glabri nunc ad areolas
setuliferi. loves solitarii, ? poll. diam., luteo-albi, extra leviter brunneo-
tincti. Ovarium immersum. Perianthii segmenta oblonga, obtusa,
patula. Stamina 80 vel ultra, alba.—Rhipsalis setulosa, Weber in Rev.
Hort. 1892, p. 628.

Rhipsalis is the only genus of the Cactacee of which
indigenous species occur outside of the American continent
and adjacent islands, for the species of Opuntia found in
various parts of the Old World have been introduced from
America. But two species of Rhipsalis are natives of
Tropical Africa, and three others are indigenous to the
Mascarene Islands. No other genus in the order is so
variable in the form of its stems and branches, as may
easily be seen by comparing some of the species which
have been figured in this Magazine, such as ft. mesem-
brianthemoides (t. 3078), R. Cassytha (t. 3080), It. sali-
cornoides (t. 2461), R. Mitilert (figured as Lepismium
Myosurus, t. 8755), and It. Houlletii (t. 6089). Besides
such distinct variation in different species, some also
produce upon the same individual two distinct kinds of
branches, as in the plant bere figured, and another example
of the same nature will be found represented in the figure
of £. salicornoides (t. 2461).

The plant here figured was presented to Kew in 1899
by Mr. Justus Corderoy,: of Blewbury, near Didcot, an
ardent lover and very successful cultivator of succulent
plants, who also presented to Kew f. Houlletii (t. 6089),

May Ist, 1905.

which was the last species of the genus figured in this
work, now thirty years ago.

According to Dr. Schumann and Dr. Weber, the variety
setulosa differs from typical F. dissimilis in having five-
angled instead of three- to seven-angled stems, and in the
outer segments of the flower being straw-coloured instead
of bright purple, but besides these characters, according
to the figure of Ft. dissimilis in the Gartenflora, vol. xl.
p. 634, t. 121, the flowers also differ in having more
numerous and more obtuse perianth segments, and at
least three times as many stamens as in typical R. dissi-
milis. It is a native of the province of Sdo Paulo, Brazil,
and was introduced into the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in
1883.

Descr.— Plant a foot to one and a half high, produc-
ing two kinds of stems and branches. Stems clustered
at the base, forked or verticillately branched ; branches
three to six inches long, three to four lines thick,
usually five- or occasionally four-angled, or subterete;
angles obtuse with flat or grooved faces between them ;
some branches entirely glabrous, others beset at the
areoles with tufts of thirteen to twenty erect, and some-
what adpressed, slender, white bristles, one-eighth to one-
third of an inch long, having at their base a minute,
transverse, rounded scale or rudimentary leaf, and some
very minute, woolly hairs, green, not glaucous, with a
purple-brown spot at each areole. Flowers solitary, three-
quarters of an inch in diameter; ovary shortly obconic,
glabrous, immersed at the areoles among woolly hairs in
cavities of the stem ; outer segments two to three lines long,
about one line and a half broad, oblong, obtuse, straw-
yellow, tinged with brownish; inner segments about five
lines long, and two lines broad, oblong, obtuse, spread-
ing, pale yellowish-white or tinted with reddish-brown at
the tips on the back; stamens eighty or more; filaments

and anthers white; style with three or four linear stigmas,
white.—N. E. Brown.

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LISTROSTACHYS brpeys.
West Tropical Africa.

Orcurpace&, Tribe VANDEA.

Listrostacuys, Reichb. f.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 583, sub
Angraeco; Pfitzer in Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 215.

Listrostachys bidens, Rolfe in Thiselton-Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 160;
inter species caulibus elongatis et floribus parvis, labello sursum attenuato
apice breviter tridentato distincta.

Frutex in arboribus epiphyticus. Caules elongati, teretes, circiter 2-4 lin.
diametro, internodiis quam foliis brevioribus. Folia numerosa, disticha,
semiamplexicaulia, crassa, coriacea, glabra, ovato-oblonga, 2-24 poll. longa,
# to 1} lata, apice oblique bilobata, lobis obtusis, basi constricta, con-
strictione brevi, circiter 20-nervia. Flores suaveolentes, circiter semi-
pollicares, incarnati, in racemos extra-axillares graciles pendentes
dispositi, subsessiles; bractess parvee, squamiformes. Sepala ovata,
obtusa, Petala sepalis similia sed minora. Labellum subcordiforme,
apice breviter tridentatum, supra dentem curvato ad calcaris ostinm
spectante instructum. Calear labellum wquans. -Pollinia 2, stipitibus
2 distinctis affixa, glandula simplice squamiformi.—Limodorum bidens,
Afz. ex Sw. in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, p. 423 (nomen tantum) ;
Pers. Syn. vol. ii. p. 521.

Tropical Africa is by no means so rich as India in the
number and splendour of her known orchids, but recent
explorations have greatly increased the number. Nine
genera alone contribute upwards of 500 species :—Bulbo-
phyllum, 41 ; Hulophia, 65 ; Lissochilus, 83 ; Polystachya, 74;
Angrexcum, 48 ; Iistrostachys, 52; Habenaria, 107 ; Satyriwm,
33; and Disa, 20. Some of these are very handsome, but
they pale before the Asiatic Vandzx and Dendrobia.

Listrostachys was separated from Angraecum by Reichen-
bach, and founded on A. pertusum, Lindl. (B.M. t.
4782); but he, as usual, did not explain the application of
the name, and it is not obvious. The Greek “ listron” is
described as an instrument for levelling roads—a shovel or
roller! We can only suppose that it was in reference to
the flowers of L. pertusa being arranged like the teeth of a
rake, for which “ listron” is also given as the equivalent.
In Angrecum, as distinguished from Listrostachys, the
pollinia are in pairs on a simple stalk. A. caudatum,
Lindl. (B.M. t. 4370), and A. chailluanum, Hook. f.
(t. 5589) belong to the latter genus. The allied genus

May Isr, 1905. : |

Mystacidium differs in having the two distinct pollinia on
distinct stalks attached to distinct glands. Angraxeum
distichum, Lindl. (t. 4145) is Mystacidium distichum,
Benth.

Listrostachys bidens is a very free-growing and profuse-
flowering orchid, and its fragrant flowers are pretty,
though not brilliantly coloured. The plant from which
the drawing was made was sent to Kew, from Old Calabar,
in 1899, by Mr. J. H. Holland, then Curator of the
Botanic Gardens there, now Assistant in the Museums at
Kew. The recurved tooth over the entrance to the spur
is a character this species possesses in common with JL,
ashantensis, Reichb. f., and I. monodon, Reichb. f. Like the
appendage over the spur in Cleisostoma, it must impede,
to some extent, the visits of insects. Some of the species
of this group require revision, and L. ashantensis is very
near the present; but Lindley’s drawing represents the
sepals, petals and labellum as crenulate, and the apex of
the labellum as less decidedly three-lobed.

Afzelius’s specific name refers to the leaves, and was
only specially applicable to this species because he referred
it to Limodorum.

Descr.—Kpiphytical on trees. Stems elongated, many-
leaved, about a quarter of an inch in diameter; internodes
shorter than the leaves. eaves numerous, thick, ovate-
oblong, between two and three inches long, obliquely two-
lobed, lobes obtuse. Flowers sweet-scented, about half an
inch long, numerous, in slender, pendent racemes. Sepals
ovate, acute. Petals similar, but smaller. Lip heart-
shaped, shortly three-toothed at the tip, and furnished
with a recurved appendage over the entrance to the spur.
Spur as long as the lip.—W. Borrixe Hemstey.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2, column and longitudinal section of the lip showing the

spur and the appendage over its mouth; 3, anther-cap; 4, pollinia :—all
enlarged.

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COLCHICUM tizanorticum.
Syria.

Liniacea. Tribe CoLcuicEz,

Concntcum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 821; Baker in
Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xvii. p. 423; Engl. und Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. ii.
5, p. 29. :

Colchicum libanoticum, Ehrenb. ex Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 166;
Post, Fl. Syria, p. 809; C. montano, Linn., proximum, foliis latioribus
antherisque luteis differt.

Cormus subglobosus vel ovoideus, tunicis fuscis, levibus. Folia per anthesin
perianthii tubo Gimidio breviora, late lanceolata, 1 poll. lata, apice paullo
cucullata. Flores 2-8 albi vel dilute rosei. Perianthii tubus 45 poll.
longus, cylindricns vel apice leviter dilatatus ; segmenta elliptico-oblonga,
obtusa vel acuta, 8-10-nervata, 14 lin. longa, 45 lin. lata. Stamina
perianthii segmentis dimidio breviora; filamenta subulata, basi viridia,
supra alba; antherw lutew. Styli rami lineares, virides, stamina
paullo superantes.

The home of this plant is in ciose proximity to snow-
drifts at Sunnin on Mount Lebanon, where it flowers
in June, bearing, according to Dr. Post, from two to
four blossoms. At Kew the plant has flowered in the
Alpine House during December and January. Under the
treatment received there it has become more robust, and
produced a greater number of flowers than in the wild
state. The variation in colour of the perianth from pure
white to pale rose is also very noticeable in plants raised
from the same batch of corms received from Mr. Georg
Egger of Jaffa.

The nearest ally of the present plant is C. montanum,
Linn. (B. M. t. 6443), which has dark brown anthers,
narrower leaves, and the tunics of the bulb much pro-
duced. C. Tvroodi, Kotschy (t. 6901), has the flowers
clustered as in C. libanoticum, but they appear in the
autumn, while the leaves do not mature until the following
spring.

Descr-—Corm subglobose or ovoid; tunics dark brown,
smooth, shortly produced at the apex. Leaves not quite
half as long as the perianth-tube at the time of flowering,
broadly lanceolate, one inch wide, slightly cucullate at the
apex. Flowers two to eight on each plant, white or pale

May lst, 1905.

rose. Perianth-tube cylindrical or slightly widened at the
apex, four and a half inches long ; segments elliptic-oblong,
obtuse or acute, eight- to ten-nerved, fourteen lines long,
four and a half lines wide. Stamens half as long as the
perianth-segments ; filaments subulate, green at the base,
white above; anthers yellow. Style-arms linear, green,
shghtly overtopping the stamens.—C. H. Wricut.

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HIPPOPHAE ruamnorpes.

Temperate Europe and Asia.

EL#ZAGNACE.
Hirrornaii, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 204.

Hippophaé rhamnoides, Linn. ; Loudon, Arb. et Prut. Brit. vol. iii. p. 1324;
ab H. salicifolia, Don, foliis subtus non tomentosis recedit. ’

Frutex vel arbor parva, saliciformis, dioica, spinosa, ramis rigidis folii
perianthiisque dense lepidotis, lepidibus orbicularibus peltatis margine
fimbriolatis. Folia alterna, conferta, lineari-lanceolata, 1-2 poll, longa,
subtus argentea. Flores minutissimi, lepidoti, utriusque sexus ad axillas
bractearum deciduarum solitarii. Flores mascu/i in spicas deciduas
dispositi ; perianthium diphyllum, valvatum; stamina 4, inclusa, filamentis
brevissimis. Flores feminet in racemos abbreviatos dispositi; racemi
axis in ramum foliatum, apice spinosum excrescens; perianthium tubu-
losum, supra ovarinm constrictum, fructiferum carnosum, nucem
fovens, stylo longe exserto per totam fere longitudinem stigmatoso.
Fructus baccatus, rubro-aurantiacus, monospermus. Semen exalbumino-
sum.

The Sea Buckthorn has been figured in numerous
publications, but it has hardly received the recognition
it deserves as an ornamental shrub in winter. Though
naturally an inhabitant of the sea-shore and salt marshes,
it flourishes where there is no accumulation of salt. The
profusion of its orange-red berries, which are not taken by
birds, in ordinary seasons, at least, and their persistence
through the winter, entitle this shrub to a place even in a
small garden. At Kew it succeeds remarkably well, both
near the water and in the sandy soil of the Arboretum.
Intending planters should bear in mind that the berries
and male flowers are borne on different individuals, or there
may be disappointment, as there often is with hollies.
Propagation is usually from suckers or by layering, so there
is no difficulty in obtaining a preponderance of female
plants. On sandy sea-shores the Sea Buckthorn is often
of procumbent habit, and not more than two or three feet
high. In more favourable localities, and left to itself,
it forms thickets six to eight feet high, and if kept to a
single stem it grows much higher.

The largest specimens of Hippophaé at Kew at the
present time are growing in the beds between King
William’s Temple and the Temperate House. First comes

May Isr, 1905. :

H. rhamnoides, var. taurica, twenty-one feet high, with a
trunk fourteen inches in girth. Further on is a tree of
H. salicifolia, from thirty-five to forty feet high, spreading
twenty-five feet, with a trunk four feet three inches in
girth, at two feet from the ground. Nearer the Temperate
House is a solitary example of ordinary H. rhamnoides.
It is fourteen feet high with a spread of twelve feet, and
a trunk seventeen inches in girth. :
Buckthorn has been used to bind shifting sands, and
protect the seeds of thé Pinus Pinaster sown under it.
Loudon figures a variety angustifolia (op. sup. cit. vol.
vii. t. 174a) with pendulous branches, which he designate
a highly ornamental tree. Both male and female of th
variety existed in the gardens of the Horticultural Socie
of London.
Our drawing was made from a specimen taken from the
group by the pond near the Palm House. :
Descr.—A shrub or small tree clothed in all the yo
parts with peltate, fringed, silvery or brown sca
dicecious, spiny. Branches very rigid, often ending i
spine. Leaves alternate, crowded. JHlowers very sm
both sexes solitary in the axils of deciduous bracts. M
jlowers in deciduous spikes ; perianth two-leaved, ineluc
four stamens with very short filaments. Female f
in short racemes, the axes of which grow out into spi
tipped branchlets; perianth tubular, enclosing the
becoming fleshy in fruit; style exserted. Berries or:
red, ovoid, four or five lines long.—W. Bortine Hems

Figs. 1 and 2, male flowers; 3, the same laid open showing th
4, a female flower; 5, gynzeceum; 6, a fruit; 7, scales from the san
fruit, from which part of the succulent perianth has been removed

seed; 10, the same in section showing one cotyledon of the :
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NEPE NTHES Ragan.

Borneo.

NEPENTHACE.
Nepentues, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 115.

Nepenthes Rajah, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxii. (1859), p. 421,
t. 72; DC. Prodr. vol. xvii. p. 95; Burbidge, The Gardens of the Sun,
pp- 100 et 108; A. J. Veitch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soe. vol. xxi. (1897)
p- 282; Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. ii. p. 493, f. 91; species ascidiorum magni-
tudine ac colore insignis.

Frutew terrestris, paucipedalis, novellis plus minusve ferrugineo-hirsutis,
caule subsimplice dense foliato. Folia crassissima, coriacea, maxima in
plantis agrestibus cum ascidio usque ad operculi apicem 5-6-pedalia:
nempe petiolus 4 poll., lamina 20 poll., cirrhus 20 poll., ascidium 12 poll.,
operculum 10 poll. longum; maxima in plantis cultis saltem dimidio
minora, cito glabrescentia, lanceolato-spathulata, deorsum attenuata,
apice rotundata utrinque glandalis (rudimentariis ?) minutis crebre con-
spersa. Cirrhus circiter 1 poll. infra laminz apicem peltatim exiens,
4-2 poll. diametro, per totam longitudinem, sed praecipue apicem versus,
glandulis perithecioideis melliferis 13-3 lin. longis praditus. Ascidia
oblique lateque ampullacea, primum ferrugineo-pubescentia, extus
plerumque brunneo-purpurea, oblique costata, alis duabus anticis viridibus
ciliatis ornata, costa postica infra operculi insertionem in calear recurvam
producta; extus glandulis melliferis paucis peritheciodeis oblongis in-
structa ; intus super totam superficiem glandulosa; glandulz in parte
superiore minores, semiobtecte, segregate, in parte inferiore majores,
omnino detects, infimse contiguse, 5—7-gonx, marginate. Operculum
crassum, amplum, ellipticum, basi cordatum, apice emarginatum, erecto-
incurvum, extus rubro-viride, intus viride, rubro-striatum, costa basin
versus geniculatim producta. Os obliquum, in collum brevem pectinatum
intus sanguineum productum. Peristomiwm atro-sanguineum, latum,
eversum, lobatum, crebre transverse plicatum, plicis angustis rigidis
nitidis, margine interiore pectinatum, dentibus acutis, inter dentes uni-
porosum, uniglandulosum, glandulis omnino immersis. lores ferrugineo-
pubescentes, 4-5 lin. diametro, anguste racemoso-paniculati; panicala
erectee, ferrngineo-pubescentes, cum rhachi valida nuda usque ad 2}
ped. longs, masculinze quam feminex longiores; pedunculi graciles,
szepissime biflori, inferiores 4-1 poll. longi, sursum gradatim breviores;
pedicelli graciles, longiores vix semipollicares. Perianthium utriusque
sexus 4-partitum ; segmenta crassa, coriacea, oblongo-spathulata, rotun-
data, recurva, infra ferrugineo-pubescentia, supra glandulosa, persis-
tentia. Antherx uniseriate. Capsule ferrugineo-tomentosm, circiter 9
lin. longee,

Nepenthes Rajah was discovered by Sir Hugh Low, whose
death we have to lament while these pages were in the
printers’ hands, together with N. edwardsiana, N. Lowit
and N. villosa, in 1851, and was described by Sir Joseph
Hooker in 1859. Mr. F. W. Burbidge introduced it for

Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in 1881. ‘This firm had it in
JUNE Ist, 1905,

cultivation from 1882, but Mr. F. W. Moore, to whom we
are indebted for the specimen figured, is the only grower who
has really succeeded. He writes :—‘* The Glasnevin plant
is one of three seedlings which were presented to me from
Messrs. Veitch’s original importation. Two were given me
by Messrs. Veitch, and one by Mr. F. W. Burbidge. It is
the last that now survives. I was advised to treat them hot
and moist, but they did not grow to my satisfaction, so I
put my last plant into a cool orchid house, and it imme-
diately began to grow. It has remained there ever since. —
The plant grew rather tall, so I determined to try and root
the head of it, but failed in consequence of trying to force
it. The old stem gave me a break at the bottom, and this _
is the plant I now have. It was two feet high when I cut |
the pitcher sent to you. My plant has never flowered ; but
it is still in perfect health, and is forming young pitchers,
The secret of growing it seems to me to be moisture,
shade and intermediate temperature. The leaves quickly —
get discoloured and sick when exposed to the sun.” .

When reading a paper before the Royal Horticultural C

Society in 1897 Mr. Harry Veitch exhibited a pitcher of
N. Rajah, also grown by Mr. Moore. This was presented
to Kew, and modelled by Mrs. Blackman, for the Museum.
It is about double the size of the one represented in our
plate. From the point of attachment to the stem to the
tip of the lid it measures three feet three inches.

Descr.—A terrestrial shrub about four feet high, rusty-

pubescent in nearly all young parts. Stem erect, stout,
densely leafy. Leaves thick, leathery, oblong or lanceolate,
including tendril and pitcher, between five and six feet
long in wild plants, rarely half as much under cultivation.
Pitchers sometimes having a capacity of two quarts (the one
figured only about half a pint) about half as wide as long,
interior wholly glandular; wings fringed. Collar very
broad, transversely plaited, outer margin lobed, inner

margin pectinate, Lid as large as the mouth, oval, cordate
at the base.—W. Borriva Hemstey.

Fig. 1, & portion of the inner surface of pitcher showing digestive glands;
2, a portion of the toothed inner margin of the collar showing the pores
between the teeth leading to immersed honey-glands, with one gland e ed ;
3, @ portion of the under surface of the lid studded with perigheoiosd hanaye
glands ; 4, male, and 5, female flowers from a wild specimen :—all enlarged.

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ERICA tusiTantca.
Western Europe.

Ericacez. Tribe ERIcEx.
Erica, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 590.

Erica lusitanica, Rudolph in Schrad. Journ. vol. ii. (1799), p. 286; Coste,
Flore Descr. et Illustr, de la France, vol. ii. p. 518; Bean in Gard.
Chron. 1904, vol. i. pp. 84 et 91, £41; ab EH. arborea, Linn., ramis pilis
simplicibus vestitis, foliis tenuioribus longioribus, pedicellis brevioribus,
calycis brevioris dentibus acutis, et corolle majoris dentibus quam tubo
quadruplo brevioribus differt.—E. polytrichifolia, Salisb. in Trans. Linn.
Soc. vol. vi. (1802), p. 329; EH. codonodes, Kindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. xx.
ae t. 1698; Gard. Chron. 1877, p. 463, f. 70, et 1896, vol. i. p. 487,

This valuable winter-flowering shrub was introduced
prior to 1835, when Lindley published it as a new species.
He did not identify it with H. polytrichifolia, Salisb., with
which he compared it, but suggested that it might be a
variety of H. arborea, L., differing in having a very small
stigma.

Lindley obtained his specimens from Wm. Wood,
Nurseryman, of Maresfield, Sussex, where it was reported
to be quite hardy, ten to twelve feet high, and beginning
to flower in February, and continuing on to May. It does
not appear to have become very widely known. It was
in cultivation at Kew between 1843 and 1853, when
A. Williamson, then Curator of the ‘‘ Royal Pleasure
Grounds,” collected it. The variety was inferior to the
one now cultivated at Kew, and the name polytrichifolia,
by which it was known, was peculiarly appropriate. The
same variety existed at Kew in 1856, when a specimen
was preserved for the Herbarium. In 1877 the present
form was figured in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, and its
merits described. In 1888 Kew procured living plants
from the Lisbon Botanic Garden, and these flourished and
passed unscathed through the excessively cold winter of
1890-91, but succumbed in 1895. There are flowering
specimens in the Herbarium collected in the months of
March and October, 1891. Last season it was very much
blackened and damaged at Kew by the fogs at the
beginning of the year.

JunE Ist, 1905.

An interesting fact in the history of this species is its
naturalization at Lytchett Heath, near Poole, by Lord
Eustace Cecil. It is fully established, and spreading
rapidly. Photographs sent to Kew in March, 1901,
represent large clumps in full blossom. The Hon. Mrs.
Evelyn Cecil, who took the photographs, has kindly
furnished the following particulars of its introduc-
tion to Lytchett:—‘ Two plants were bought by Jord
Eustace Cecil for Lytchett Heath, about 1876. One was
planted in the garden, and died after several years. The
other was planted in rough ground just outside the flower
garden and grew well. It began to produce seed about
1880, and since that date it has gone on increasing and
seeding. Seedlings that have been transplanted into the
grounds near have equally established themselves. Now
between one and two acres of ground are covered with
thousands of bushes. The average height is from four to
six feet, but many are over seven and eight, and one
measures eleven feet. It seems to grow equally well in
_ sand or clay. It is a curious fact that although seedlings
from Lytchett have been planted in many places ‘in the
neighbourhood, and have grown, none have, as yet, seeded,
even on similar soil within a few miles. The original
plant lived about twenty-five years.”

Descr,—An erect, densely-branched shrub, ten to twelve
feet high, flowering when quite small, and flowering from —
the ground to the tips of the topmost branches when fully
grown. Branches very slender, clothed with simple hairs.
Leaves linear, about a quarter of an inch long, with a
longitudinal, very narrow furrow on the under side.
Pedicels scarcely as long as the flowers. Flowers white or —
pink. Calyzx-lobes ovate, acute, one-twenty-fourth of an
inch long. Corolla tubular-campanulate, about one-sixth
of an inch long ; teeth obtuse, about a quarter the length
of the tube. Stamens included; anthers: furnished with

two hairy awns at the base. Style shortly exserted.—
W. Bortine Hemsury. A 1

_Fig. 1, a flower and its bracteolate pedicel; 2, stamens; 3, part of calyx and
pistil; 4, cross section of an ovary :—all enlarged.

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RHABDOTHAMNUS Sonanoprt.
New Zealand.

GESNERACES. Tribe CYRTANDRES. ©

Ruappornaunvs, A, Cunn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. LO11.

Rhabdothamnus Solandri, A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i. (1838),
p. 460; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. vol. i. p. 186; C. B. Clarke in DC. Monogr.
Phaner. vol. v. p. 166, t. 173; Ic. Sel, Hort. Then. vol. v. p. 57, t. 174
(species unica). _ , ' ; vey

Frutex virgatus, debilis, ramosissimus, 1-3-pedalis, hispidalus, ramis
gracillimis divaricatis. lia opposita, spe disparia, petiolata, tenuia,
ovalia vel orbicularia, maxima cum petiolo gracili circiter pollicaria, sed
plerumque minora, grosse dentata; ven primariz utrinque 3 vel 4,
subtus elevate, venis ultimis minute reticulatis. lores axillares,

_ solitarii, suberecti, circiter 1 poll. longi; pedicelli graciles, nunc quam

© flores paullo longiores, nunc breviores, nudi vel interdum bracteolis
2. minutis medic instructi. Calyx squaliter 5-fidus, hispidulus; lobis
lanceolatis acutis tubo longioribus. Corolla glabra, rubro-aurantiaca,
longitudinaliter rubro-striata, infundibuliformis ;. limbus circiter 1 poll.
diametro, bilabiatus, labio postico minore emarginato, labio antico
zequaliter 3-lobato, lobis omnibus rotundatis. Stamina 4, didynamia,
longiora vix exserta. Ovarium superum, glabrum, 1-loculare, stylo
incluso; placent parietales, bifide, multiovulate. Capsula crustacea,
ovoidea, acuta, calycem persistentem paullo excedens, demum in valvas 4
dehiscens. Semina minuta, levia, obscure striatula—R. scabrosus,
Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, vol. ii. (1841), p. 443.

Rhabdothamnus Solandri is the only representative of
the Gesneracex inhabiting New Zealand, where it is ende-
mic and confined to the Northern Island, ranging from
the Bay of Islands southward to Wellington. Sir Joseph
Hooker states that it was then (1854) in cultivation in
England; but we think he must have had the Australian
closely allied [ieldia australis, A. Cunn. (B. M. t. 5089)
in view, because we find no other record of its existence in
gardens in the United Kingdom.

Kew possesses a plant, purchased last year of Mr.
Lemoine, nurseryman of Nancy; but, like many other
plants at Kew, it suffered from the destructive fogs of
the autumn and winter. In Mr. W. EH. Gumbleton’s
garden at Belmore, Queenstown, Ireland, it has flourished,
and we are indebted to him for materials for our figure.
He obtained it from the same source as Kew, and kept it
in a greenhouse, where it had been almost continuously in

June Ist, 1905,

flower from November to the end of January. The plant
was then “ growing strongly, and will probably flower on
all the branchlets of this young growth during the summer
and autumn.’”’ The individual flowers last for a week or
ten days before falling. The plant has since fruited with
Mr. Gumbleton.

Deser—A much-branched, hispid shrub, one to three
feet high. ranches very slender, given off at right
angles. Leaves opposite, often in unequal pairs, petiolate,
thin, oval or orbicular, the largest, including slender
petiole, about an inch long, coarsely toothed; ultimate
veins finely reticulated. Flowers axillary, solitary, about
an inch long; pedicels slender, about as long as the
flowers. Calya hispid, equally five-lobed ; lobes lanceolate,
acute, longer than the tube. Corolla glabrous, orange,
longitudinally striped with red; limb two-lipped; upper
lip smaller, emarginate ; lower lip deeply three-lobed; all
the lobes rounded. Stamens four, the two longer ones ©
scarcely exserted. Capsule ovoid, acute, slightly over-
topping the persistent calyx. Seeds minute-—W. BorrTine

EMSLEY,

Fig. 1, part of calyx and pistil; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, front and
back views of stamen; 5, cross section of ovary; 6, capsule from a dried
specimen :—all except the last enlarged.

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Peru.

ORCHIDACEZ.—Tribe VANDE&.

Lycastg, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 547; Pfitzer in
Engl. & Prantl Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 162.

Lycaste Locusta, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1879, vol. i. 524; Rolfe in Orch. Rev.
1898, p. 136 ; aff. L. costate, Lindl., scapis longioribus, floribus omnino viri-
dibus, sepalis petalisque angustioribus, et labelli apice fimbriato distincta.

Herba epiphytica, circa 2 ped. alta. Pseudobulbi cxespitosi, ovoideo-oblongi,
subcompressi, 24-4 ped. alti, monophylli, vaginis membranaceis vestiti.
Folia elongato-lanceolata, acuminata, longe petiolata, plicata, circa 12
ped. longa, 13 poll. lata, viridia. Scapi circa 10-poll. alta, vaginis
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 15-18 lin. longis vestiti. Bractee
oblongo-lanceolatz, acuminate, 1} poll. longe. Pedicelli circa 1 poll.
longi. lores speciosi, virides, labello albo-marginato. Sepala circa
2 poll. longa; sepalum posticum lanceolato-ellipticum, snbacutum vel
apiculatum, concavum, circa 9 lin. latum; sepala lateralia triangulari-
lanceolata, basi fere 1 poll. lata. -Petala oblonga, subobtusa, 1} poll.
longa, 5 lin. lata. Labellum trilobum, circa 2 poll. longum ; lobus inter-
medius elliptico-oblongus, obtusus, valide fimbriatus, fere 1 poll. latus;
lobi laterales triangulares, acuti, subfalcati, 3 poll. longi, margine integro;
crista obcordato-oblonga, margine elevata et crenulata, medio concava,
carinis ad basin extensis. Oo/umna clavata, arcuata, circa 1 poll. longa,
apice anguste alata, basi in pedem curvatum extensa, cum sepalis
lateralibus mentum latum obtusum formans; pollinarii glandula utringue
appendicula furcata ornata.

The species of Lycaste having a fimbriate lip form a
particularly difficult group, and have never been properly
defined. A few of them, however, are very well known,
and among these may be mentioned four which have
been figured in the Botanical Magazine. ‘The earliest is
L. fulvescens, Hook, (t. 4198), having rather narrow, buff-
yellow segments. LL. gigantea, Lindl. (t. 5616) has larger
greenish sepals and petals, and a brick-red lip margined
with deep yellow. J. costata, Lindl., is figured under the
name of L. Barringtonix var. grandiflora, Hook. f. (t. 5706),
and has ivory-white flowers; while LD. linguella, Reichb. f.
(t. 6303) has rather greener flowers, and a less fimbriate
lip than the preceding. The present one is remarkable
for its dull green flowers, with a white fringe, which
extends all round the front of the lip. It was originally
described over twenty-five years ago, from a plant col-
lected in Peru by Mr. Davis, in the service of Messrs.

JUNE lst, 1905.

James Veitch & Sons, who flowered it first at Chelsea, in
1879, after which it appears to have been lost sight of.
It was reintroduced from Peru by Messrs. F. Sander &
Co., and flowered at Glasnevin in April, 1898, when it
was identified. The plant figured was presented to Kew
by Mr. F. W. Moore, A.L.S., Keeper of the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Glasnevin, in 1903, and it flowered in the
Temperate Orchid House in April of last year.

Descr.—A. tufted epiphyte about two feet high. Bulbs
ovoid-oblong, somewhat compressed, about two and a half
to four inches high, one-leaved, partially clothed with the
persistent leaf-sheaths. Leaves elongate-lanceolate, acumi-
nate, narrowed into a long petiole, plicate, about twenty-
two inches long, one inch and a half broad, bright green.
Scapes about ten inches high, bearing oblong-lanceolate,
acuminate sheaths about fifteen to eighteen lines long.
Braets oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, one inch and three-
quarters long. Pedicels over an inch long. Jlowers large,
dull green, with a white margin to the lip. Sepals about
two inches long; dorsal lanceolate-elliptical, subacute or
apiculate, concave, about nine lines broad; lateral trian-
gular-lanceolate, nearly an inch broad at the base. Petals
oblong, subobtuse, one inch and three-quarters long, five
lines broad. Lip three-lobed, about two inches long;
front lobe elliptical-oblong, obtuse, strongly fimbriate,
nearly an inch broad; side lobes triangular, acute, slightly
falcate, three lines long, with entire margin; crest obcordate-
oblong, with a crenulate, fleshy, raised margin, extending
to the base as a pair of keels, concave in the centre.
Column clavate, arcuate, over an inch long, narrowly
winged at the apex; base prolonged into a curved foot
three-quarters of an inch jong, forming with the bases of
the lateral sepals a broad, obtuse chin; stipes of pollinia

oblong ; gland bearing a slender, furcate appendage at each
side.—R. A. Ronre.

Fig. 1, column; 2 and 8, pollinarium, seen from front and back, and :
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BOW KERIA GERRARDIANA.
ce Natal.

ScrRoPHULARIACE. Tribe CHELONEA.
Bowker, Harv.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 937.

Bowkeria gerrardiana, Harv. ex Hiern in Thiselton- Dyer, Fl. Cap. vol. iv.
2, p. 220; a B. triphylla corolle labio postico latissimo et filamentis basi
crassioribus anticis breviter obtuseque calcaratis recedit.

Frutex erectus, ramogus, 8-10 ped. altns, ramulis subteretibus foliosis pilis
cinereis tenuibus sparse vestitis. Folia ternatim verticillata, sessilia, char-
tacea, elliptico- vel oblong»-lanceolata, 2-6 poll. longa, $-1} poll. Jata,
acuminata, serrulata, breviter pubescentia vel venis snbtus exceptis glabra,
subtus resinoso- punctata, /ores 3-10 in cymas axillares foliis breviores
dispositi. Pedunculi 1-2 poll. longi, pubescentes, patentes. Pedicelli
24-7 lin. longi, sursum incrassati. Bractez et bracteole ovato-lanceolate
vel lanceolate, circiter 2} lin. long, caduce. Calyx j}-3 poll. longus,
viscidus; segmenta ovata vel elliptica, inewqualia, szpissime acuta.
Corolla 8-9 lin. longa, 6-8 lin. lata, urceolato-globosa, nitida, alba, intus
minnte rubro-punctata, extra viscida, subcoriacea; labium posticum sub-
planum, 43-6 lin. longum, 7-8 lin. latum, latissime bilobatum; anticam
brevius, ventricosum, trilobatum, lobis rotundatis circiter 2 lin. longis
13-2 lin. latis. Staminum filamenta basi curvata et incrassata, antica
breviter obtuseque calcarata. Stylus 3 lin. longus, sursum leviter in-
crassatus. Capsula oblonga, 4-5 lin. Jonga, nitidula, sazpe 3-locularis.—
B. triphylla, Hort., non. Harv.; De Wild. Ic. Sel. Hort. Then. vol. ii.
p. 143, t. 74; Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. ii. p. 398, cum fig.

Bowkeria is a small genus of shrubby plants inhabiting
the eastern region of Cape Colony, and extending northward
to Natal and the Transvaal. Most nearly allied to Ixianthes
and Scrophularia, the species resemble in habit, foliage and
the shape of the flowers some of the shrubby Calceolarias.
Of the five species known, that here figured is the only
one in cultivation, assuming that none of the plants grown
under the name of B. triphylla is correctly designated.
Plants bearing this name have been cultivated in the
Temperate House, Kew, for many years, but as yet no
flowers have been produced, in the absence of which a
satisfactory determination of the species cannot be
attempted. In foliage B. gerrardiana and B. triphylla are
practically identical. The latter is, however, easily dis-
tinguished by the shape of the upper lip of the corolla,
being very much narrower. The difference in the bases
of the filaments is a less important character.

Juxx Ist, 1905.

The specimen from which the drawing was prepared
was sent to Kew by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S., in Sep-
tember, 1904. It was taken from a plant ten feet high,
growing out of doors in the garden of Mrs. Gwytherne-
Williams, St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, under the name of
B. triphylla. The flowers are said to have a peculiar faint
odour, or, according to the Flora Capensis, are strongly
rue-scented.,

Descr—An erect, branched shrub eight to ten feet high,
with subterete, leafy branches, thinly covered with grey,
slender hairs. Leaves ternately verticillate, sessile, charta-
ceous, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, two to six inches long,
half an inch to about two inches broad, acuminate, serru-
late, shortly pubescent or glabrous, except on the veins
beneath, resin-dotted beneath. Inflorescence an axillary,
dichasial, three- to ten-flowered cyme, shorter than the
leaves. Peduncles one to two inches long, shortly pubescent,
spreading. . Pedicels two and a half to seven lines long,
thickened above. Bracts and bracteoles ovate-lanceolate
or lanceolate, about two lines long, caducous. Calye
three to four lines long, viscid; segments ovate or
elliptic, unequal, mostly acute. Corolla eight to nine lines
long, six to eight lines broad, urceolate-globose, shining- —
white, minutely red-dotted inside, viscid outside, somewhat
leathery ; upper lip rather flat, four and a half to six lines
long, seven to eight lines broad, very broadly two-lobed ; —
lower lip shorter, ventricose, three-lobed ; lobes rounded,
about two lines long, one and a half to two lines broad. _
Filaments curved and thickened at the base, those of the
lower stamens shortly and obtusely spurred. Style about
three lines long, thickened at the apex. Capsule oblong, —

si to five lines long, shining, often three-celled.—S. A
KAN. =

Fig. 1, vertical section of the calyx, showing pistil; 2, vertical section of

the flower; 3 and 4, anthers; 5 i : a
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CACALIA TUBEROSA,
North America.

Composita. Tribe SENECIONIDES.

Cacania, Linn.: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 449, sub Senecione ;
Hoffm. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. iv. 5, p. 296.

Cacalia (§ Conophora) tuberosa, Nutt. Gen. Am. Pl. vol. ii. p. 188; A. Gr.
Synop. Fl. N. Am. vol. i. 2, p. 396; Chapm. Fl. Southern U.S. p. 224; inter
species hujus affinitatis foliis crassissimis radicalibus ovalibus vel
oblongis longissime petiolatis conspicue costatis insignis.

Herba perennis, robusta, caulibus pluribus usque ad 6 ped. altis sed sxpius
brevioribus, glabra. Folia crassa, coriacea, ovata vel lanceolata, valide
7- vel 5-costata, integra vel paucidentata, radicalia longissime petiolata,
cum petiolo interdum bipedalia, caulina pauca, sursum gradatim minora.
Capitula discoidea, numerosa, 5-flora, late corymbosa, pedunculis sub-
umbellatis gracilibus bracteis paucis parvis sparsis instructis. Involwcri
bractese 5, oblongs, circiter semipollicares, obtusa, erectze, dorso late
alate, herbacee, virides, ad margines ac carinam scariose, albe. Corolla
pallide lutea; tubus angustissimus apice inflatus; lobi lineares, acuti.
Anthere aurantiace.—Senecio Nuttallii, Sch. Bip. in Flora, vol. xxviii.
p- 499; Mesadenia tuberosa, Britton in Britt. & Br. Ill. Fl. N. U. States
& Canada, vol. iii. p. 474, £. 4031.

Cacalia tuberosa is a very distinct and striking plant,
which one would not take to be a member of the Com-
posite from its general aspect. ‘The conspicuously winged
bracts of the involucre give the flower-heads the appear-
ance of the fruit of some of the Umbellifere. It is a
plant for wet places in the wild garden or mixed border
among other big things, as its somewhat coarse habit
disqualifies it for association with plants of graceful pro-
portions. It has a hardy constitution, judging from its
great latitudinal distribution, ranging, as it does, from the
lake region of Canada southward to Florida and Texas.
The wild specimens we have seen are all of much smaller
dimensions than the cultivated ‘one, for which we are
indebted to W. E. Gumbleton, Esq.

Descr.—A. robust, perennial herb, glabrous in all parts.
Stems several, as much as six feet high under cultivation,
but usually much less than that in a wild state. Leaves
thick, leathery, ovate or lanceolate, prominently seven- or
five-ribbed longitudinally, entire or few-toothed; radical

on very long stalks, including the stalks sometimes two
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feet long ; stem-leaves gradually smaller upwards. Flower-
heads discoid, five-flowered, numerous, in broad, compound
corymbs. Peduncles slender, subumbellate, furnished with
a number of small, scale-like bracts. Involucral bracts
five, oblong, about half an inch long, erect, with a broad
wing running down the back, herbaceous, green; margins
scarious and wing white. Corolla pale yellow. Anthers
orange.—W. Borrine Hemstey. :

Fig. 1, section of leaf-stalk; 2, a flower-head; 3, a cross section of the
same showing the strongly winged involucral bracts; 4, receptacle and two
bracts; 5, a flower; 6, a pappus-bristle; 7, anthers :—all enlarged.

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PERNETTYA MUCRONATA
(Varietates diverse).

South Chili and Patagonia.

Ericaces, Tribe ANDROMEDEA.
Pernettya, Gaud.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 582.

Pernettya mucronata, Gaud. in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 102, in nota;
Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, Bot. Phaner. Dicot. t. 22; Hook. f. Fl.
Antarct. vol. ii. p. 326; Gay, Fl. Chil. vol. iv. p. 354; species variabilis
adhuc male circumscripta foliis ovatis vel lanceolatis rigide spinoso-
cuspidatis,

Frutez sempervirens, ramosissimus, procumbens vel ascendens, cito glabres-
cens, ramis rigidis. Folia alterna, conferta, crassa, coriacea, oblongo-
lanceolata, 3-9 lin. longa, margine recurva, paucidentata. Flores
axillares, solitarii, pedunculati, circiter 3 lin. longi; pedunculi quam folia
breviores, recurvi, infra medium bracteolis 2-4 squamiformibus instructi,
puberuli. Calyx alte 5-fidus, segmentis ovatis acutis. Corolla alba,
seepe roseo tincta, urceolata, 5-dentata, dentibus recurvis. Stamina
10, inclusa; filamenta minute puberula, ima basi dilatata; antherarum
loculi apice breviter biaristati. Ovariwm superum, 5-loculare, loculis
multiovulatis. Bacca globosa, polysperma. Semina minuta, compressa,
angulata.—Arbutus mucronatus, Linn. f.; Bot. Mag. t. 3093 (flores
tantum).

Pernettya mucronata was originally raised from seeds
sent home by John Anderson to the Edinburgh Botanic
Garden, where it flowered for the first time in May, 1830.
Ten years later P. angustifolia, Lindl. (B. M. t. 3889)
flowered in the same garden. With regard to the specific
limits of the Chilian Pernetiyx, authors have taken very
different views. The forms are numerous, and the late
Dr. Philippi and others described many of them as species.
On the other hand, some botanists and horticulturists
regard P. mucronata and P. angustifolia as mere varieties.
But, judging from the type of the latter in the Kew
Herbarium, they seem specifically distinct. P. muero-
nata, aS we understand it, is itself very variable in
stature, in the size and shape of the leaves, as well as in
other characters. It will probably be found to inhabit a
different area from that of P. angustifolia, though the two
may overlap to some extent. P. mucronata is essentially —
a southern species, being very common from the Straits
of Magellan to Cape Horn, and Sir Joseph Hooker

JuLy lst, 1905. :

collected it largely in Hermite Island, in nearly 56° S. lat.
Specimens from more northern localities referred to this
species require confirmation or verification.

P. angustifolia, Lindl., was first recorded from Valdivia
(about 40° S. lat.), and there are several wild specimens
in the Kew Herbarium from the same locality. It was
in cultivation at Kew between 1843 and 1853, as specimens
dried by A. Williamson attest; but it disappeared many
years ago, having probably been killed by frost. In 1902
H. J. Elwes, Esq., F.R.S., presented seed to Kew collected
by himself at Hnsenada, Lake Llanquihue, in about
41° 30’ S. lat., from which a fresh stock has been raised.

In a circular, issued about twenty-five years ago, Mr.
L. 'T’. Davis, of Hillsborough, County Down, Ireland,
states that he commenced some thirty years previously
raising seedlings from “ P. angustifolia, the hardiest and
best, free-fruiting variety of P. mucronata then in cultiva-
tion.” From all the evidence before us, there is little
doubt that this was a narrow-leaved variety of the
genuine P. mucronata, and not the P. angustifolia, Lindl.
At all events the plant commonly cultivated at the
present time under the name of angustifolia, is certainly
P. mucronata.

Under cultivation every part of a plant is liable to
variation, and this may be intensified by continued
selection. In the case of vegetables grown for the table
the root, the stem, the foliage, the inflorescence and the
fruit have been in turn moulded to the demand of the
cultivator. With decorative plants grown for the gratifi-
cation of the eye and not of the palate, form and colour
In the flowers and fohage have been the objects aimed at. —
It is singular that Pernettya mucronata is, perhaps, the
only case at present in which the possibilities of colour-
variations in the fruit have been worked upon. Some of
the results are indicated in the accompanying plate. —
There is, perhaps, nothing to put beside them except the _
not uncommon cases in which under cultivation plants —
with red fruits sport to yellow as in I. lex, Coffea, Cratequs
and Solanum. ‘

Descr.—An evergreen, much-branched shrub, one to
four feet high under cultivation, young parts soon be-
coming glabrous. Branches thin, rigid, Leaves alternate,

crowded, thick, rigid, oblong-lanceolate, three to nine
lines long, margin recurved, toothed, sharply spine-tipped. —
Flowers solitary, axillary, about three lines long; stalks
shorter than the leaves, furnished with two to four scale-
like bracteoles. Calya five-toothed; teeth ovate, acute.
Corolla white, tinged with rose, urceolate, five-toothed ;
teeth recurved. Stamens ten, included; anthers two-
awned at the tip. /ruit baccate, globose, about half an
inch in diameter, many-seeded, pink, red, purple or
white. Seeds very small, flattened, angular—W. Bortine
Hemstny.

Fig. 1, a flower; 2, a stamen; 3, a pistil:—all enlarged.

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COLEUS sarrensis.
~ British Central A frica.

Lapiuatz. Tribe OcimorpEs.

Co.zus, Lour.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1176; Engl. &
Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. iv. 8 A, p. 359.

Coleus shirensis, Giirke in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xix. p- 216; Baker in Thiselton-
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. v. p. 443; exaffinitate C. thyrsoidei, Baker, a quo
foliis simpliciter dentatis cymis sessilibus et calyce 4-lobo differt.

Herba perennis, radice fibrosa, 24-3 ped. alta, ramosa, glanduloso-puberula et
villosa, caule demum glabro verrucoso. Rami acute quadranguli, virentes,
purpureo-maculati, demum obtuse-angulati et pallide brunnei. Folia
Jonge petiolata, ovata, acuta, basi subtruncata vel subcordata, ad
petiolum breviter cuneato-decurrentia, crenato-dentata, rugosa, utringue
minute puberula. Panicule spiciformes, 3-1 ped. longs, terminales,
verticillastris vel cymis 10-20 composite, glanduloso-puberale et villose,
Pedicelli 2-6 lin. longi. Calyx inequaliter 4-lobus; lobi majores
subsequales, divergentes, 1} lin. longi, fere 1 lin. lati, oblongi, superiore
obtuso, inferiore acute bifido; lobi minores 2 lin. longi, } lin. lati, lineari-
oblongi, obtusi, omnes in fructu conniventes, accrescentes. Corolla 9
lin. longa, violaceo-ccerulea ; tubus abrupte deflexus, compressus, apice
dilatatus, intra ad flexuram membrana clausus; labium superius sub-
quadratum, inzqualiter 4-lobum; labiam inferius compresso-cymbiforme,
acutum. Stamina corolle subequalia; filamenta supra insertionem ad
tertiam partem connata. Sty/us demum corollam breviter excedens.,

This fine species of Coleus is allied to the handsome
C. thyrsoideus (B. M. t. 7672), differing in its simply
toothed leaves, sessile cymes, the 4-lobed calyx, and the
darker blue colour of its flowers. It was sent to Kew in
1902 by Mr. J. McClounie from Zomba, in British
Central Africa, a region that appears to be comparatively
rich in species of this and the allied genus Plectranthus,
some of them being quite as ornamental as the present
one. As grown at Kew, Coleus shirensis becomes a fine
bushy plant about three feet high, each branch ending in
a long, spike-like panicle of dark blue flowers, and during
the present year has lasted in flower from February to
April. It requires the same treatment as other species of |
the genus.

Descr.—A fibrous-rooted, branching herb about three feet
high. Branches at first sharply four-angled, glandular and
hairy, pale green, spotted with purple, becoming glabrous,
obtusely angular, verrucose at the spots, and pale brown

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in colour. Leaves spreading; petiole one to two inches
and a half long, glandular and hairy; blade two to four
inches and a half long, about two to three inches and a
half broad, ovate, acute, subtruncate or subcordate at the
base, and shortly decurrent on the petiole, regularly
obtusely dentate; veins impressed above and prominent
beneath, minutely puberulous beneath, and very in-
distinctly so on the upper surface, bright green, paler
beneath. Panicle terminal, spike-like, six inches to a
foot long, one and a half to two and a half inches
in diameter, composed of from ten to twenty or more
verticils which develop into dichotomous cymes bearing °
ten to fifteen pedicellate flowers; lowest pair of cymes
usually pedunculate and the rest sessile, glandular, and
hairy. Pedicels two to six lines long. Calyx hairy, four-
lobed ; upper and lower lobes subequal, about a line long
and broad, divergent, oblong, the upper obtuse, the lower
shortly and acutely bifid; lateral lobes two-thirds of a line
long, quarter of a line broad, linear-oblong, obtuse; after
flowering the lobes close together and enlarge. Corolla
_ three-quarters of an inch long, thinly glandular-puberulous,
with a few longer hairs on the upper and lower lips and
underside of the tube, which is abruptly bent upon itself
at the middle, dilated beyond the bend, compressed, nearly
closed inside at the bend by a membrane, white, stained
with dark blue; upper lips subqnadrate, unequally four-
lobed ; lower lips five lines long, three lines deep, com-
pressed-boat-shaped, acute, deep blue. Stamens about
equalling the lower lip; filaments connate at the base,
white, with blue tips; authers oblong, violet. Style
shortly exceeding the corolla, filiform, glabrous, deep
orange at the very base, blue at the apex. Disk with a
large, oblong gland on the lower side.—N. E. Brown.

Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, a corolla laid open; 3and 4, anthers; 5, ovary — 3

and disk :—all exlarged.

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COLCHICUM STEVEN.
Syria and Arabia.

Liniacrkz. Tribe CoLcHIcEs.

Cotcuicum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p. 821; Engl. &
Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 5, p. 29.

Colchicum Steveni, Kunth, Hnum. Pl. vol. iv. p. 144, eael. syn.; Baker in
Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xvii. p. 483; Boiss. Fl. Orient. vol. v. p. 165;
—— OC. montano, Linn., affinis, antheris Inteis oblongo-linearibus

iffert.

Cormus ovoideus, 1 poll. longus, tunicis brunneis, levis, collo brevi. Folia
synanthia, anguste linearia, 3 lin. lata, floribus wzquilonga. Flores 3-10
fasciculati. Perianthit tubus cylindricus, 24 poll. longus, albus; seg-
menta anguste elliptica, obtusa, 9 lin. longa, 4 lin. lata, 7-10-nervia,
dilute roseo-lilacina demum fere alba, Stamina perianthii segmentis
multo breviora; filamenta 6 lin. longa, basi incrassata lutea, supra

- subulata, alba ; antherz lineari-elliptice, Intese. Styli rami lineares, albi,
staminibus zequilongi.—C. polyphyllum, Boiss. et Heldr. Diagn. Pl. Nov.
series 2, n. iv. p. 121.

Although this charming species was described as long
ago as 1843, it appears not to have been brought into
cultivation until quite recently. The plants figured were
raised from corms purchased from Mr. G. Egger, of Jaffa,
in 1904, and flowered in an unheated greenhouse at Kew
in January of the present year. C. Steveni belongs to
that comparatively small section of the genus characterized
by the leaves and flowers being produced at the same
time, and the perianth not being tessellated. It is very
closely allied to C. montanuim, Linn. (B. M. t. 6443), with
which it has sometimes been confused, but from which it is
chiefly distinguished by having yellow, not brownish-purple
anthers. By a similar character it differs from C. Ber-
tolonti, Stev. (Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. vol. x. t. 424), as well
as by the apical sheath of the corm being usually less
produced. C. Stevent grows along the coast region of
Syria and extends into Arabia, while specimens doubtfully
referred to it have been collected in Persia.

Descr.—Corm ovoid, one inch long; tunics brown,
smooth, produced into a short neck. Leaves appearing
with, and about as long as, the flowers, narrowly linear,
three lines wide. Flowers three to ten in a fascicle.
Pevrianth-tube cylindrical, two and a half inches long,

JuLy lst, 1905.

white; lobes narrowly elliptical, obtuse, nine lines long

yellow. Style-branches linear, white, as long as
- stamens.—C. H. Wricar. |

four lines wide, seven- to ten-nerved, pale rosy lilac, be-
coming nearly white. Stamens much shorter than the
perianth-segments ; filaments thickened and yellow at th
base, subulate and white above; anthers linear-ellip

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LISTROSTACHYS Montttra, ©
tes West Tropical Africa.

Orcuipacea. Tribe VANDER.

Listrostacuys, Reichb. f. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 930; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen.
Plant. vol. iii. p. 583, sub Angreeco.

L. Monteirx, Reichb. f. in Linnea, vol. xli. p. 76; Rolfe in Thiselton-
Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 156; inter species affines foliis latis,
racemis foliis szepissime longioribus et calcare erecto subcurvato distincta.

Herba epiphytica, robusta, 1-2 ped. alta. Caules erecti, subcompressi.
Folia oblonga vel obovato-oblonga, suboblique biloba, obtusa, basi sub-
cuneata, 5-8 poll. longa, 13-2 poll. lata, coriacea. Racemi erecti, 4-1
ped. longi, multiflori. Bractex late ovate, subobtuse, cucullate, 3-4
poll. longee. Pedicelli 6-9 lin. longi. Flores flavido-albi, calcare basi
virescente apice ochraceo. Sepa/a arcte recurva, basi lata, dein acumi-
natissima, 5-6 lin. longa. Petala sepalis subsimilia, minora. Labellum
4-5 lin. longum, basi late ovatum, cucullatum, dein acuminatum, recur-
vum; calear erectum, latum, plus minusve curvatum, 13-2 poll. longum.
Columna latissima, 1 lin. longa, apice rostrata, acuminata, decurva;
pollinarii stipites 2, graciles; glandula lineari-oblonga, apice recurva,
apiculata.—Angreecum antennatum, Krinzl. in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xvii.

p- 61.

Instrostachys bidens, Rolfe, was figured in a recent
issue of the Botanical Magazine (t. 8014), where some
remarks appear on the genus and on the three other
species previously figured. L. Monteirx, Reichb. f., though
strikingly different in appearance, agrees in the structure
of the very characteristic pollinarium which led to its
original separation from Angrecum. In other respects the
genus is rather polymorphic. Out of about sixty species
over fifty are continental, and the remainder Mascarene,
so that the genus is essentially African. It is also typically
western, as four-fifths of the continental species are only
known from West Africa, the remainder being Hast
African, with a single outlying species (LZ. arcuata,
Reichb. f.) in extra-tropical South-east Africa. This is
occasionally met with in cultivation, and it may be added
that about a third of the species have appeared in gardens
at different times.

Listrostachys Monteire is a common West African
Species, which was originally described from dried
specimens collected at Bembi in Angola by Mrs. Monteiro,

JuLy Ist, 1905,

and has since been found in the Cameroons, Lagos and
adjacent territory. It was introduced into cultivation by
Messrs. F, Sander & Co., who flowered it in March, 1892.
The plant figured was sent to Kew in 1900 by Mr. J. H.
Holland, then Curator of the Botanic Garden at Old
Calabar. It flowers annually in the Tropical Orchid
House.
Descr.—A stout, erect epiphyte, one to two feet high,
bearing stoutish roots towards the base. Stems somewhat
compressed. Leaves oblong or obovate-oblong, obliquely
bilobed and obtuse, cuneate towards the base, five to eight
inches long by one and a half to two inches broad,
coriaceous and dark green. Racemes erect, six to twelve
inches long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate, obtuse,
cucullate, three to four lines long. Pedicels six to nine
lines long. Flowers yellowish white; upper part of spur
ochreous, base light green. Sepals strongly recurved,
very acuminate from a broad base, five to six lines long.
Petals rather smaller than the sepals, but otherwise similar.
Lip broadly ovate, cucullate at the base, thence acuminate,
recurved, four to five lines long; spur erect, stout, more
or less curved, one and a half to two inches long. Column
very stout, about a line long, with an acuminate, curved
beak; stipites of pollinarium two, slender, attached to

a linear-oblong gland, apex recurved, apiculate.—R. A.
Rotre, |

ee

Fig. 1, column; 2, anther case; 3, pollinarium: 4, entire plant:—1, 2 and
3 much enlarged; 4 much reduced, poihnarium; 4, entire p ’

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MECONOPSIS «intecrironta.
- Western China and Tibet.

PaPAVERACER.
MeEconopsis, Vig.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 52.

Meconopsis integrifolia, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. vol. xxxiii. (1886),
p. 389; Maxim. Fl. Tangut. p. 35, t. 9, ff. 7-12, t. 23, ff. 22-25, non Bulley
in Flora & Sylva, vol. iii. (1905), p. 80 cum icone ecolorata; Gard. Ohron..
1904, vol. ii. p. 240 cum icone nigra; Le Jurdin, 1904, p. 328 ; inter species
caulibus plurifloris, columna stylari nulla et forum colore insignis.

Herba seepius robusta, monocarpica, $-3 ped. alta, primum tota pilis sericeis
longissimis rubiginosis fulvescentibus vel albidis pleruamque vestita,
demum pro parte glabrescens, spins 8-12-flora. Caulis validus, pluri-
sulcatus, ramis vel pedunculis ae foliis caulinis in pseudoverticilla dis-
positis. Folia radicalia numerosissima, confertissima, pro maxima parte
lineari-lanceolata, usque ad pedein longa, sed seepius dimidio breviora,
caulina similia, sursum gradatim minora, infima minora, ovato-spathulata.
Pedunculi quam folia longiores, uniflori, pilis deflexis ornati. F/ores flavi,
seepius 5-6 poll., interdum usque ad 10 poll., diametro, erecti, iis Peeonize
specierum nonnullarum similes, diuturni. Sepala ovata, caducissima.
Petala ssepius 5-10, orbiculari-obovata, plus minusve incurva. Stamina
innumera. Capsula oblonga, 1-14 poll. longa, 5-8-costata, glabrescens,
stigmatibus 5-8 lamelliformibus coronata, valvis totidem brevibus recurvis
persistentibus dehiscens. Semina oblonga vel subreniformia, circiter
lineam longa, testa conspicue reticulata.—Cathcartia integrifolia, Maxim.
in Mél. Biol. vol. ix. p. 713.

This striking plant was first discovered by the celebrated
Russian traveller, Przewalski, in 1872-73, in the extreme
north-west of the Province of Kansuh, and he subsequently
collected it in several different localities in the same region.
Potanin also collected it in Kansuh, in 1885. In 1887 it
was collected by Delavay in the Snowy Range of Likiang,
Yunnan, at an altitude of 13,000 feet; and in 1890 Mr,
A. E. Pratt obtained very fine specimens in the neighbour-
hood of Tachienlu. Its first appearance in European
gardens seems to have been due to the Abbé Farges,
who sent seeds to Mr. Maurice L. de Vilmorin in 1895,
with whom it flowered in 1897; but it produced no seed,
and was consequently lost to cultivation.

In 1903 Messrs. James Veitch & Sons sent Mr. E, H.
Wilson on a second journey to China, one of the principal
objects being to collect seeds of Meconopsis integrifolia.
He “found it in millions” in the mountains west of

Aveust Isr, 1905,

Tachienlu, at elevations of 11,000 to 15,500 feet; never
lower. As might be expected, it is perfectly hardy in the
open ground, but, what was less to be expected, it flourishes
and flowers freely without any special treatment. Whether
it will seed, time will prove. Under the most favourable
conditions, in a wild state, Mr. Wilson cbserved plants
about three feet high, bearing as many as eighteen flowers,
whilst at its greatest altitudinal limit it is reduced to a
rosette of leaves with one flower nestling in the centre.

The plant figured in “Flora and Sylva” differs in
having the more open flowers borne singly on stalks _
arising from the rosettes of leaves, and in the stigmas
being borne on an elongated style-column. The specimen
collected in the Gooring Valley, at an elevation of about
16,500 feet, by Mr. and Mrs. Littledale, and referred by
me (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxv. p. 164) to M. integrifolia,
certainly does not belong to that species, as it has an
elongated style-column.

Descr—A robust biennial, usually one foot and a half
to three feet high, densely clothed with long, silky hairs
varying in colour, but usually yellowish brown. Stem
stout ; branches and peduncles in whorls. Leaves numerous,
mostly linear-lanceolate, six inches to a foot long, shorter
on the stem. Peduncles longer than the leaves, o1
_ flowered, clothed with reversed hairs. Flowers yellow
usually five to six inches in diameter, sometimes as much —
as ten. Sepals ovate, falling at the opening of the flower.
Petals five to ten, orbicular-obovate, more or less incurved.
Stamens exceedingly numerous. Capsule oblong, one
inch to one and a half long, longitudinally five- to eight-
ribbed, crowned by the same number of sessile, stigmatic
plates, and opening by as many short, recurved, persistent
valves. Seeds oblong, or nearly reniform, about a line
long, with a prominently netted surface.—W. Borrina
Hemstry. oS

Fig. 1, a stamen; 2, a pistil :—doth enlarged; 3,a capsule :—natural size; :
4, a plant :—about one-fifth of natural size. cs

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TETRATHECA rayirotta.

East Australia.

TREMANDRACER.
TerrRaTHEcA, Sm.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 134.

Tetratheca thymifolia, Sm. Hwot. Bot. vol. i. p. 41, t. 22; Benth. Fl.
Austral. vol. i. p. 130; ex affinitate 7. ciliate, a qua sepalis lanceo-
latis acuminatioribus differt.

Fruticulus erectus, pubescens, ramosissimus, 1-1} ped. altus, ramis teretibus
gracilibus. Folia 3-4-natim verticillata, ovato-elliptica vel lanceolata,
acuta, marginibus recurva, 4 lin. longa, 1-2 lin. lata. Pedunculi quam
folia longiores. Flores 4-meri. Sepala ovato-lanceolata, acuminata,
valde pilosa, fere 13 lin. longa. Petela obovata, ante anthesin stamina
gemina includentia, 4 lin. longa. Antherw 2-seriatim 4-loculares ; tubus
brevis. Stylus integer, dimidio inferiore pilosus. Ovariwm pubescens ;
ovula in quoque loculo 2, superposita.

The Tremandracex, now for the first time represented
in this Magazine, are a purely Australian order.

Tetrathecas are among the oldest of the one-time
favourite “ New Holland” plants, some of them having
been introduced into cultivation a century ago. There are
twenty-one species, most of them worth growing. The
best known, 1. ericifolia, T. hirsuta and 1. pilosa, like most
of the genus, have drooping flowers, and are none the less
beautiful on that account. . thymifolia, even in dull
weather, bears its flowers erect with the purple anthers
exposed to view.

The order comprises only two other genera, namely,
Flatytheca, which has one representative, the elegant
P. galioides, and Tremandra, a genus of two species.

Descr.—A much-branched, pubescent undershrub, with
slender, erect, terete stems, one foot to one and a half
high. Leaves verticillate in threes or fours, ovate-elliptic
or lanceolate, acute, with recurved margins, about four
lines long by one to two lines broad. Pedicels longer
than the leaves. Flowers tetramerous. Sepals ovate-
lanceolate, acuminate, very hairy, nearly one line and a
half long. Petals obovate, four lines long, each enfolding
a pair of anthers when in bud. Anthers four-celled, with

Aveusr Isr, 1905. :

two of the cells in front of the two others; anther-tube
short. Style entire, pilose on the lower half. Ovary
pubescent, with two superposed ovules in each cell.—
L. Farmar.

Fig. 1, a leaf; 2, a flower from which the petals have been removed; 3 and
4, front and back views of stamen; 5, pistil; 6, vertical section of ovary;
7, ovules, with appendage at chalazal end :—all enlarged.

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IMPATIENS Hotstt.

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Hast Tropical Africa.

GERANIACEA. ‘Tribe BALSAMINEA
Impatiens, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 277.

Impatiens Holstii, Hugl. et Warb. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C. p. 254;
Bull. Soc. Tose. Ort. 1904, p. 339, f. 23; species ex affinitate I. Sultani
(B. M. t. 6643), a qua foliis latioribus et floribus majoribus vere
miniatis differt. -

Frutex subcarnosus, 2-3 ped. altus fere undique glaber, ramis rubro-striatis.
Folia alterna, longe petiolata, ovata vel superiora lanceolata, cum
petiolo sxepius 3-4 poll. longa, acuta, crenata, inter crenas unisetosa,
utrinque pracipue secus costam venasque parcissime puberula, venis
primariis lateralibus utrinque circiter 7 sat conspicuis. Fores axillares,
solitarii vel pedunculis interdum bifloris, 15-1? poll. diametro, plani;
pedunculi quam folia breviores. Sepala 3, lateralia lineari-acuta,
circiter lineam longa. Sepalum calcaratum limbo ovato apiculato,
caleare tenui 13-1} poll. longo. Vevillum late obcordatum, dorso cari-
natum. Petula lateralia fere bipartita; segmenta oblique obovato-
spathulata, rotundata. Capsu/a ignota.

Impatiens Holstit was purchased for Kew in 1894. It
is a native of Usambara and Kilimandjaro, growing on the
banks of streams in the tropical forest at altitudes of 2,500
to 5,000 feet. Very similar to J. Sultani, it bids fair to
surpass that species, both in habit and the brilliancy of
its flowers, which are produced almost continuously.
Several of the African species are very ornamental, and
have improved greatly under cultivation. J. Oliveri (B. M.
t. 7960) is a remarkable instance. Last season it suc-
ceeded very well in the open border, attaining considerable
dimensions, and as a greenhouse plant it is invaluable,
requiring little care. In the spring of the present year
there was at Kew a plant, twelve months old from a
cutting, four feet high and twelve feet in circumference,
bearing about thirty clusters of flowers at one time. The
largest flowers were almost three inches in diameter, and
both in colour and shape strongly resemble those of
Miltonia veaillaria.

The purple, oblong, very small, reticulated pollen-
grains of [. Holstii are very beautiful under a microscope.
Their dimensions are about *0018 x ‘0008 of an inch.

Avcust lst, 1905,

Desev.—A fleshy shrub or herb, almost glabrous in all
parts, two to three feet high. Branches striped with red.
Leaves alternate, long-stalked, ovate or the upper ones
lanceolate, mostly three to four inches long, acute, crenate,
with a solitary bristle between the crenatures, both sur-
faces, especially on the midrib and primary veins,
furnished with a few scurf-like hairs; primary lateral
veins about three on each side of the midrib. lowers
pure scarlet, axillary, solitary, or rarely two on a common
stalk, largest one inch and three quarters across, flat.
Stalks shorter than the leaves. Sepals three; lateral
small, scale-like. Spurred sepal having an ovate, apiculate
limb; spur slender, about an inch and a_ half long.
Standard or odd petal broadly obcordate. ' Lateral petals
deeply divided into two, nearly equal, obliquely obovate-
spathulate, rounded lobes.—W. Borrina Hemstey. »

Fig. 1, portion of leaf, upper surface; 2, a flower-bud; 3, anthers from a
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PLECTRANTHUS CRASSUS.
on Nyasaland,

LABiaAtes#. Tribe OcIMotpER,

Precrrantuus, L'Hérit.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p.1175; Engler’
& Prantl, Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. 3 A, p. 352.

Plectranthus crassus, WV. £. Br. (sp. nov.) Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. i. p. 21,
sine descriptione apta; ex affinitate P. albocerulei, a qua caule minute
velutino foliis basi late cuneatis et spicis multo majoribus differt.

Herba 24-3-pedalis. radice fibrosa. Caules obscure tetragoni, minute velutini,
brunnei. olii petiolus }j-} poll. longns; lamina 2-33 poll. longa,
14-25 poll. lata, ovata, obtuse acata, basi acute cuneata, supra minutis-
sime appresse pubescentia, subtus reticulato-venosa, minutissime tomen-
toso-puberula. Jnflorescentia terminalis, spiciformis, 5-8 poll. longa,
simplex vel basi ramosa, verticillis subconfertis sessilibus 8-28-floris.
Pedicelli 1 lin. longi, puberuli, glandulosi. Calyew 143-2 lin. longus,

subequaliter 5-lobus, antice profunde fissus, pubescens et glandulosus;

lobi subulati, acutissimi. Corolla cserulea; tubus decurvus, compressus ;
labium superius in lobos 2 subquadratos divisum, basi lobulis parvis
instructum, dorso pubescens; labium inferum 3 lin. longum, eymbiforme,
obtusum, pubescens. Stamina 2 lin. longa, glabra; filamenta cerulea;
antheree fuscw. Diseus albidus, lobo magno antico., Sty/us staminibus
subaqnilongus, glaber, ceeruleus.

The handsome stove herbaceous plant here figured was
discovered in Nyasaland by Mr. John Mahon, who sent it
in 1899 to Kew, where it has flowered regularly during
the winter months since 1902, forming a useful decorative
plant at that season of the year, and may be regarded as
a companion plant to Coleus shirensis figured in this
Magazine (t. 8024). Plectranthus crassus requires the
same kind of stove treatment.

_ Descr.—An herbaceous plant, two and a half to three
feet high, puberulous and glandular in nearly all parts.
Stem rather obscurely four-angled, pale brown. Leaves
spreading; petiole about one-third of an inch long; blade
two to four inches long, one to two inches and a half
broad, ovate, obtusely acute, cuneate at the base, minutely
pubescent on the light green upper surface, veins closely
reticulate on the under surface. Inflorescence terminal,
simple or branched at the base, spike-like, five to eight
inches long, about one inch and a half in diameter,
AvGust Ist, 1905.

Verticils twelve to twenty, rather crowded, sessile, eight-
to twenty-eight-flowered. Bracts very deciduous, a quarter
to two-thirds of an inch long, a sixth to a third of an inch
broad, broadly ovate, acute, mucronate, very concave,
ciliate. Pedicels about one line long, puberulous and
glandular. Calyz one and a half to two lines long,
pubescent, with spreading hairs intermingled with indigo-
coloured glands, lobed nearly to the base in front; dorsal
lobe two-thirds of an inch broad, lateral lobes two-fifths
of an inch broad at the base, all tapering to a very acute
point, dull brownish-purple. Corolla light blue, hairy on
the back of the upper and lower lips with purple hairs,
and with a few white hairs on the underside of the tube,
which is one-third of an inch long, bent downwards at its
exsertion from the calyx; upper lip a line and a half
long, two and a half lines broad, deeply divided into two
subquadrate lobes with a small rounded lobule at their
base; lower lip three lines long, about a line and a half
broad, oblong, obtuse, rather shallowly boat-shaped, about
three-quarters of a line deep. Stamens two lines long,
glabrous; filaments blue; anthers blackish, with yellow
pollen. Style as long as the stamens, glabrous, blue;
stigmas subulate, very acute. Disk with a large lobe on
the lower side, white.—N. EH. Brown.

Figs. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, calyx laid open, exposing ovary; 4, a hair;
5, corolla in section; 6 and 7, anthers; 8, apex of style with stigmas :—a//
enlarged.

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ODON TOGLOSSUM ramutosum,

Colombia.

OrcHIDACEX.—Tribe VANDE.

Opontoaiossum, H. RB. et K.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 561;
Pfitzer in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 197.

Odontoglossum ramulosum, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Odont. p.18; Reichb. f. in
Bonplandia, 1855, p. 66; species sectionis Myanthium, Lindl., et ex
affinitate O. ixioidis, a qua paniculis amplioribus, floribus divaricatis,
et pedicellis bracteis multo longioribus differt.

Herba epiphytica, rhizomate valido lignoso. Psewdobulbi ovoideo-oblongi,
subcompressi, circa 3 poll. longi, apice diphylli, basi circa 6-phylli.
Folia ligulata, subacuta, arcuata, circa 8-12 poll. longa, 9 lin. lata.
Scapus axillaris, 2-3 ped. altus, paniculatus, multiflorus. Bractex
ovato-oblongs, acute, concave, circa 2 lin. longew. Pedicelli 6-9 lin.
longi. Flores aurei brunneo-maculati, crista labelli aurantiaca. Sepala
spathulato-oblonga, subobtusa, 5-6 lin. longa, lateralia paullo recurva.
Peiala late unguiculata, ceteris sepalo postico similia, subconniventia,
apice paullo incurva. Labelli unguis erectus; limbus reflexus, oblongus,
obtusus, brevis; crista 4-6-loba, basi in carinas carnosas 2 ad basin
labelli extensa, Colwmna, clavata, 2 lin. longa, alis subobsoletis.

The genus Odontoglossum contains some of the most
popular of cultivated Orchids, though the species are not
all equally showy, and some of them are not very highly
esteemed in gardens, particularly those belonging to
Myanthium, which includes the present species. Only
two others of this section have appeared in the Botanical
Magazine; O. Hdwardi, Reichb. f. (t. 6771), remarkable
for its deep violet-purple flowers, and O. retusum, Lindl.
(t. 7569), in which the sepals and petals are rich orange-

__ yellow, and the lip deep yellow.

0. ramulosum, Lindl., was originally discovered in the
forests of New Grenada by Funck and Schlim, and both
living and dried specimens were sent home. It was after-
wards found by Purdie on rocks at La Baja, and by
Wagener at San Pedro, in Venezuela, at 5,000 feet
elevation. It flowered in cultivation as long ago as
February, 1849, The plant figured was presented to Kew
by Mr. F. W. Moore, A.L.S., Keeper of the Royal Betanic
_ Gardens, Glasnevin, and flowered in February last.

—» Deser.—An epiphytic herb about a foot to a foot and

Aveust Isr, 1905.

a half high apart from the inflorescence; rhizome very
stout. Bulbs ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed, about
three inches long. Leaves strap-shaped, subacute, some-
what curved, about eight to twelve inches long by three-
quarters to an inch broad, bright green. Scape from the
base of the bulb, about two and a half to three feet high,
panicled above with about six or eight side branches and
numerous flowers. DPracis ovate-oblong, acute, concave,
about two lines long. Pedicels about six to nine lines long.
Flowers bright yellow, with a large brown blotch at the
base of the petals and dorsal sepal, a few spots on the
lateral sepals, and a brown band on the lip in front of the
orange crest. Sepals spathulate-oblong, subobtuse, five to
six lines long, the lateral pair somewhat recurved. Petals
with short broad claws, otherwise much like the dorsal
sepal in shape, and somewhat connivent, slightly incurved
at the apex. ip with erect claw and oblong, obtuse,
reflexed limb, rather shorter than the other segments;
crest with four or six fleshy lobes, and a pair of very stout
parallel keels extending to the base of the lip. Column
clavate, about two lines long, without wings.—R. A. Roxrs.

Figs. 1 and 2, column and lip; 3, anther-case; 4 and 5, pollinarium, seen
from front and back :—all much enlarged. .

Nore to Tas. 8019.

Fieldia was introduced in 1826, though not figured in
the Botanical Magazine till 1858. Sir Joseph Hooker
writes that he certainly had Rhabdothamnus Solandri in
view in 1854 as then in cultivation, and not Fieldia, with
which, botanically, it could not be confused.

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PETASITES JAPONIOUS.

Hastern Asia.

Comeosita. ‘Tribe SENECIONIDES.
Perasites, Gertn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 438.

Petasites japonicus, Maxim. in “The Award of the thirty-fourth Demi-
dovian Prize” (Russian), 1866, p. 212; separate edition, p. 17; Mig. Prol.
Fl. Jap. (1865-67) p. 380; Fr. Schmidt, Reisen in Amurlande, 1868, p. 145 ;
Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl.-Jap. vol. i. (1875) p. 220; species foliorum
radicalium magnitudine insignis.

Herba perennis, robusta, dioica vel subdioica, preter inflorescentiam acaulis.
Folia radicalia subcarnosa, orbicularia, basi reniformi-cordata, 2-3 ped.
diametro, pedatinervia, sinuato-dentata, dentibus acutis, subtus albo-
tomentosa, supra cano-floccosa, cito glabrescentia; petioli in plantis
agrestibus interdum ultra 6 ped. alti et 2 poll. diametro. Jnflorescentia
subdioica, 6-12 poll. alta, ante folia evoluta; scapus crassus, bracteis
oblongis costatis vestitus. Capitula discoidea, numerosissima, dense
corymbosa. Flores albi.—Petasitis vulgaris, Keempf., Amoen. Exot. 1712,
p- 831. Tussilago Petasites, Thunb. F). Jap. 1784, p. 314, non Linn.
Nardosmia japonica, Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. vol. iv. 3
(1846), p. 181, reprint, p. 57. Petasites albus, A. Gr. in Perry’s Exped. to
China & Japan, vol. ii. (1857), p. 314, non Gaertn. Petasites spurius,
Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. (1865-66), p. 168, non
Reichb. f. Petasites giganteus, Fr. Schmidt, ex Trautv. in Acta Horti
Petrop. vol. viii. (1883), p. 433. Petasites japonicus, var. giganteus, Gard.
Chron. 1897, vol. ii. p. 311; Nichols. Dict. Gard. Cent. Suppl. vol. ii.
(1901), p. 591. Tama bouki, &e. Honzo Zufn, vol. xviii. tt. 4, 5, 6, et 7.
Fouki, Somoku Zusetzn, vol. xvii. tt. 25 et 26.

The synonymy of this plant is very much involved,
through errors of transcription, and we are greatly in-
debted to Mr. Boris Fedschenko, the Chief Botanist of the
Imperial Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg, for assistance in
unravelling it.

The name Petasites signifies parasol, and was given in
allusion to the large radical leaves of the species on which
the genus was founded. All, or most of the species have
this character in common, the leaves attaining their full
development long after the flowering-period; and the
leaves of P. japonicus exceed those of all others in their
dimensions. Schmidt seems to have been the first to
describe the fully formed leaves, and he states that in the
Island of Saghalien the leaf-stalk is taller than a man,
whilst the blade reaches a diameter of three feet. In the
Kew Herbarium there is a nature-print of a leaf presented

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1905,

by Dr. Tokutaro Ito some years ago, nearly equalling the
dimensions named.

The vegetation of the Island of Saghalien and Kamt-
chatka is characterized in places by the extraordinary size of
a number of herbaceous plants, which rise to a height of ten
to fifteen feet. Prominent among them are species of Spirxa,
Sanguisorba, Heracleum, Angelica, Urtica, and Festuca.

Petasites japonicus has long been a cultivated plant in
Japan, and the figures in the “ Honzo Zufu” cited above
include varieties having leaves and bracts variously striped
with white and red, and one in which the bracts of the
inflorescence and young leaves are deep red, edged with
white, and striped with green.

Kew first obtained this plant, in 1899, from the Yoko-
hama Nursery Company, in whose Catalogue for 1898
there is a humorous pictorial representation of the use of
the leaves as umbrellas, and it was there probably that it
first received the varietal name of giganteus. This was
superfluous, because Schmidt gives equally large dimen-
sions for the wild plant in Saghalien. On the authority
of this Catalogue “the big petioles are eaten as a vege-
table, either boiled or preserved in salt or sugar, and its
flower-buds are used fresh as a condiment and _ spice,
owing to their agreeable flavour and slightly bitter taste.”
For a further stock Kew is indebted to B. E. C. Chambers,
Hsq., of Grayswood Hill, Haslemere, who presented it in
1903. It is now flourishing in the Temperate House, and
on the bank of the pond in the front, of the Museum; but
it does not at present attain the gigantic dimensions it
does in its home in Eastern Asia.

Descr,—A perennial herb varying greatly in dimensions,
but attaining a very large size under cultivation. Stemless
except the inflorescences, which are functionally uni-
sexual. Leaves appearing later than the flowers orbicular, _
reniform-cordate at the base, coarsely toothed and veined,
at first clothed with a felt-like, white indumentum, but
Soon becoming glabrous. Flower-stems appearing before
the leaves, stout, clothed with oblong, ribbed bracts.
Flowers white, densely corymbose.—W. Borrinc Hemstry.

Figs. 1 and 2, flowers (female) from the circumference of the head ;
3, flower (hermaphrodite) from the centre of the head; 4, a pappus-bristle;
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CLIRRHOPETALUM sreviscarum.
Malaya.

Orcuipaceas. Tribe EPIpENDRER.

Cirruoretatum, Linn.: Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. il. p. 504; Pfitzer ©
in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 178.

Cirrhopetalum breviscapum, Rolfe (sp. nov.); aff. C. lasiochilo, Hook. f.,
foliis latioribus, sepalis lateralibus longioribus flavis brunneo-maculatis
et labelli pilis tenuioribus distincta.

Herba epiphytica, rhizomate repente vaginis imbricatis tecto. Pseudobulbi
oblongi, tetragoni, 8-10 lin. longi, monophylli, vaginis 2 ovatis dimidio
brevioribus tecti. Folia subsessilia, elliptico-oblonga, obtusa vel obscure
bidentata, coriacea, pallide viridia, 14-2 poll. longa. Scapi ad pseudo-
bulborum basin solitarii, erecti, 14 poll. longi, pallide virides, brunneo-
maculati, uniflori. Bractezx ovato-lanceolate, acute, 2 lin. longea. Flores
speciosi; sepalum posticum, petala et labellum purpureum; sepala late-
ralia flava, brunneo-maculata. Sepalwm posticum lanceolato-oblongum,
acutum, incurvum, concavum, eciliatum, 8-9 lin. longum. Sepala
/ateralia basi connata, dein libera, oblonga, subobtusa, recurva, subtorta,
1 poll. longa. Petala lanceolata, acuta, patentia, 8-9 lin. longa.
Labellum carnosum, 5 lin. longum, basi late cordatum, dein subito con-
strictum, apice oblongum, obtusum, apice excepto pilis Jongis vestitum.
Columna basi lata, apice angusta, 3 lin, longa; dentes graciles, acute,
incurve ; anthera puberula.

Cirrhopetalum is rather a large and polymorphic genus
closely allied to Bulbophyllum, and not always clearly
separable from it. Upwards of forty Indian species
have been described, and the Malayan representatives
must be almost equally numerous, though several of them
are very imperfectly known. SBesides these there are
a few representatives in South China, and a single
outher in the Mascarene and Polynesian islands,
C. Thouarsit, Lindl., on which the genus was originally
founded. ‘They aré remarkable for the elongation of the
lateral sepals, and for having the flowers usually borne in
an umbel. In C. refractum, Zoll., and one or two allies,
however, the flowers are racemose, while in the one now
figured and a few others they are solitary. Upwards of a
dozen species have already been figured in this Magazine,
among the more distinct and remarkable being CU. fim-
briatum, Lindl. (t. 4391), C. Cumingii, Lindl. (t. 4996),
C. Thouarsii, Lind]. (t. 7214), C. ornatissimum, Reichb. f.

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1905.

(t. 7229), CO. Collettii, Hemsl. (t. 7198), C. Hookeri, Duthie
(t. 7869), C. Curtisti, Hook. f. (t. 7554), and C. robustum,
Rolfe (t. 7557).

C. breviscapum is a native of Perak, and a plant of
it, presented to Kew, in 1903, by Mr. F. W. Moore,
A.L.8., Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin,
flowered in a tropical house in March last. The three
other Indian species having one-flowered scapes are
C. merguense, Hook. f., C. lasiochilum, Hook. f., and
C. appendiculatum, Rolfe.

Deser—An epiphytic herb with creeping rhizomes
covered with imbricating sheaths. Bulbs oblong, tetra-
gonal, eight to ten lines long, one-leaved, with a pair
of loose ovate sheaths at the base about half as long as
the bulb. Leaves subsessile, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or
obscurely bidentate, coriaceous, light green, one to two
inches long. Scapes erect, about one inch and a half high,
light green marked with red-brown, one-flowered. Pract
ovate-lanceolate, acute, about two lines long. flowers
rather large, the dorsal sepal and petals dull purple, the
lateral sepals yellow spotted with red-brown, and the lip
rose-purple. Dorsal sepal lanceolate-oblong, acute, in-
curved, concave, not fringed, about eight or nine lines
long; lateral sepals free, except at the base, oblong, sub-
obtuse, recurved, somewhat twisted, about an inch long.
Petals lanceolate, acute, spreading, about as long as the
dorsal sepal. Lip fleshy, about four lines long, broadly
cordate at the base, rapidly narrowing to the middle, and
prolonged in front into an oblong, obtuse lobe, all but the
front lobe covered with long spreading purple hairs.
Column very broad at the base, narrowing upwards, about
three lines long, with a pair of slender curved teeth at the
apex, prolonged into a narrow incurved foot at the base ;
anther-case puberulous.—R. A. Rowre. '

Fig. 1, flower with sepals and petals removed; 2, lip; 3, anther-case, seen
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PRUNUS penpvra.
Japan.

Rosacea. Tribe PRuNEX.
Prunus, L.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 609.

Prunus pendula, Mawim. in Bull. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersbourg, vol. xxix.
(1884), p. 98; Mél. Biol. vol. xi. p. 690; Sargent in Garden & Forest,
vol. i. (1888) p. 198, fig. 36, vol. ii. p. 487 (figure of an old tree). Kahne,
Deutsch. Dendrol. p. 307 ; Dippel, Laubholzk. vol. iii. p. 618; Cyclop. Am.
Hort. p. 1452, fig. 1996; affinis P. inciso, Thunb., sed innovationibus
pilosis, foliis infra tantum in nervis pilosis, floribus numerosioribus,
sepalis denticulatis et stylo piloso differt.

Arbuscula vel arbor media, ramis flexuosis magis minusve pendulis cortice
fusco vel fusco-nigricante tectis, ramulis juventute pilosis gracilibus.
Folia post flores evoluta, anguste elliptica vel elliptico-lanceolata, apice
basique acuta, 13-2 poll. longa, 10-12 lin. lata, ineequaliter argute serrata,
serraturis apice glanduloso-incrassatis, supra jam in gemma _ prater
costam parce pilosam glabra, subtus in costa nervisque adpresse pilosa
tandem glabrata; nervi secundarii subrecti, obliqui, utrinque circiter
10-12; petiolus gracilis, molliter pilosus, 3-6 lin. longus; stipule subu-
late, breviter glanduloso-fimbriate, ad 5 lin. longee, decidue. lores in
racemos abbreviatos 5-2-floros brevissime pedunculatos vel sessile
bracteatos dispositi; pedunculi vel racemi basi perulis rotundatis vel late
ovatis subcoriaceis nigro-fuscis pilosulis demum deciduis cincti; bractez
lanceolatze vel subulatie, pilose, longitudine valde varie, caduce ; pedicelli
+3 poll. longi, patule pilosi. Receptaculum campanulatum, 13-2 lin.
longum, pilosulum. Sepala ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, acuta, minute
denticulata, 1-13 lin. longa, pilosula. Petala rosea, rotundato-obovata
vel obovata, apice leviter emarginata. Stamina inzequilonga, quam petala
multo breviora. Ovarium glabrum; stylus stamina paulo superans, basi
densiuscule patule pilosus. Drupa pisiformis, nigra.—P. ttosakura, Sieb.
Syn. Pl. Oecon. in Verhandl. Batav. Genootsch. vol. xii. (1830), p. 68,
no. 8360 (nomen). P. subhirtella, Miq. Prolus. Fl. Jap. in Ann. Mus. Bot.
Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. p. 91 (excl. var.). P. subhirtella var. pendula, Usef.
Pl. Japan, p. 153, fig. 620. P. sp. Savatier, Livres Kwa-wi, p. 72
(Kwa-wi, ed. 1759, vol.i.t. 3). Cerasus pendula rosea, Flor. Mag. vol. x.
t. 536. C. herincquiana, Lav. in Arb. Segrez. p. 117, t. xxxv.

Prunus pendula, according to Maximowicz, has been
found in the wild state in the mountain forests of
Central Nipon; but of this no specimens are at Kew.
It is not uncommonly cultivated in gardens and near
temples in Japan, and a good figure of it was pub-
lished in the Kwa-wi as early as 1759. It is called
there Ito sakura, evidently in allusion to the long,
slender branches, ito meaning thread, whilst sakura
is the name of the cherry tree. Siebold, therefore, took it

SepTtEMBER lst, 1905.

up as P. itosakura, but as he gave no proper description,
this name is generally disregarded. It was subsequently
described as P. subhirtella, Mig. Siebold introduced
it into Kurope about 1863, under the name of Cerasus
pendula rosea. When Maximowicz revised the Chinese
and Japanese species of the genus Prunus, he adopted the
name P. pendula for our plant in preference to Miquel's
name P. subhirtella, as he thought that Miquel had con-
fused several distinct species under his P. subhirtella.
How far Maximowicz was justified in his assumption
cannot be established without the examination of Miquel’s
specimens; in any case Maximowicz’s name has_ so
generally been accepted ever since that it would be
inconvenient to give it up without the most urgent
reasons.

There are several varieties of P. pendula with flowers
ranging from the palest pink to saturated rose colour, and
it is very probable that the plant described and figured
here is merely a state, with pendulous branches, of a species
with normally erect branches, analogous habit variations
occurring in several species of Prunus. The specimen
from which the plate was drawn was raised at Kew from
seeds received from Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum,
in 1890, The little tree is now about nine feet high, and
flowers profusely in March.

Descr—A small or middle-sized tree. Branches spread-
ing, flexuous, pendulous, hairy when young; bark be-
coming smooth, light or dark brown to almost black.
Leaves unfolding after the flowers, narrowly elliptic or
elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, sharply and un-
equally serrate, serratures thickened at the tips, with or
without one or two glands near the base, glabrous above
except midrib, adpressedly hairy below, particularly on
the nerves, more or less glabrescent, lateral nerves ten to
twelve on each side, rather oblique, straight and parallel ;
petiole slender, three to six lines long, softly hairy ;
stipules subulate, glandular-fimbriate, deciduous, about as
long as the petioles. Flowers five to two in very short,
shortly peduncled or sessile racemes, springing from buds
with dark, puberulous, rounded scales; peduncle, where
developed, pedicels and the receptacle softly hairy ;
pedicels three to six lines long; bracts caducous, lan-

ceolate or subulate. Receptacle campanulate, about two
les long. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute,
minutely toothed, about one line and a half long. Petals
rose-colour, rotundate-obovate or obovate, slightly emar-
ginate, three to five lines long. Stamens unequal, the long-
est considerably shorter than the petals. Ovary glabrous ;
style hairy, particularly near the subpersistent base.
Drupe black, of the size and shape of a pea.—Orto Srapr.

Fig. 1, flower with the petals removed, cut open; 2 and 3, stamens:—al/
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SCILLA. mzssENraca.

Greece.

Litiacez. Tribe Scrnies.
Scruza, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 814.

Scilla messeniaca, Boiss. Diagn., ser. 1, 7 (1846), p. 110, et in FV. Orient.
vol. v. (1881), p. 226; ex affinitate S. pratensis, W. K., a qua foliis multo
latioribus differt.

Bulbus ovoideus, tunicis pallidis vestitus, 1 poll. diametro. Folia 5-7, synan-
thia, late linearia, basi attenuata, apice abrupte acuminata, 6-9 lin. lata,
6-9 poll. longa. Scapusangulatus, foliis paullo brevior. Racemus ovato-
oblongus, 10-20-florus. Pedicelli erecto-patuli, perianthium zquantes vel
paullo longiores. Bractez solitarie, minutissime, truncatze vel interdum
profunde bifide. Perianthium pallide azureum, 3 lin. longum; segmenta
linearia, obtusa, erecto-patula. Staminum filamenta azurea, quam peri-
anthium paullo breviora; anthere violacese, Stylus ovario paullo longior.
Ovula in loculis geminata. Capsula globosa, obtuse trigona, 3 lin. longa.—
S. amena, Bory et Chaub. F). Pelop. p. 15 non L.

The genus Scilla contains over a hundred described
species, native of Europe, Asia, and Africa, chiefly extra-
tropical South Africa; and one is a native of Chili and
another of Peru. The section Huscilla, to which the
present one belongs, is characterized by the perianth-
segments spreading from the base.

S. messeniaca bears a resemblance as regards the raceme
to S. pratensis, which comes into flower two months later.
The leaves, however, are totally different from those of
that species.

Although described some sixty years ago, this Scilla
does not appear to have been introduced into gardens until
recently. Its habitat is confined to the Morea. There
is in the Kew Herbarium only one specimen, which is
from the valley of the Nedon, at Kalamata in Messenia, at
an elevation of 500 to 1,000 feet. It is also recorded from
the neighbouring provinces of Arcadia and Laconia, where
it flourishes in the grassy, stony, lower regions.

Bulbs were purchased from Mr. Max Leichtlin in 1897.
They now form a large clump in the herbaceous ground at
Kew, and flower freely in March.

Among the species of Scilla most useful for the garden
already represented in this Magazine are:—S. amena

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1905,

(t. 341), S. bifolia (t. 746), S. hispanica (t. 128), S. hyacin-
thoides (t. 1140), and S. sibirica (t. 2408).

Descrv.—Bulb ovoid, one inch in diameter; outer scales
pale. Leaves five to seven, flat, broadly linear, attenuate
at the base, with apex abruptly acuminate, one half to
three-quarters of an inch broad, six to nine inches long.
Scape angular, slightly shorter than the leaves. Raceme
ovate-oblong, ten- to twenty-flowered. Pedicels ascending
or somewhat spreading, equal to the perianth or slightly
longer. Bracts solitary, very minute, truncate, or some-
times deeply bifid. Perianth pale blue, three lines long,
with somewhat spreading, linear, obtuse segments. %la-
ments blue, slightly shorter than the perianth. Anthers
violet. Style slightly longer than the ovary. Ovules two
in each cell. Capsule globose, obtusely three-angled, three
lines long.—L, Farmar.

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COTYLEDON uvstenis.

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Nyasaland,

CRASSULACER.

Cotytepon, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 659; Engl. &
Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. 111. 2 A, p. 32.

Cotyledon insignis, N.#. Br. (sp. nov.); inter species floribus majoribus,
foliis oppositis et cymis axillaribus distinctissima.

Planta succulenta, 2 ped. alta, omnino glabra, floribus exceptis ex toto viridis.
Folia opposita, breviter petiolata, recurva, 3-5 poll. longa, 1-2 poll. lata,
oblonga vel oblanceolato-oblonga, obtusa, basi angustata, mtegra vel
obscure dentata. Cymz axillares et terminales, pedunculate, 1-3-flore.
Bractez 3-1 poll. longee, 3-4 poll. late, lanceolate vel oblongo-lanceolate,
acute. Pedicelli 6-9 lin. longi. Calyx 4-5 lin. longus, 4-lobus; lobi
erecti, 3-4 lin. longi, lanceolati, acuti. Corolle tubus circiter 1} poll.
longus, leviter curvatus, rubescens; lobi recurvi, 7-8 lin. longi, circiter
; poll. lati, lanceclati, acuti, Iuteo-virentes, rubescentes, dorso rubri.
Stamina exserta; antherz oblong, rubescentes. Glandule hypogynze
3 lin. longee, elongato-ovatz, apice bifide. Carpella 4; styli filiformes,
exserti. ‘

This fine Cotyledon is one of the most distinct in the
genus, differing in habit from all other known species.
Its flowers have some resemblance to those of C. curviflora,
Sims (B. M. t. 2044), but in all other respects it is entirely
different. It was discovered on one of the mountains of
Nyasaland, British Central Africa, at an altitude of 7000
feet, by Mr. John Mahon, who sent seeds of it to Kew
in 1898, where it first flowered in February ofthis year. It
requires coo) stove treatment, similar to that given to the
various species of Kalanchoe.

Descr.—A succulent plant about two feet high, glabrous ©
on all parts. Stems or branches erect, about half an inch
thick, light green, not glaucous. Leaves opposite, much
recurved, three to five inches long, one to two inches
broad, one to one line and a half thick, oblong or oblan-
ceolate-oblong, obtuse, cuneately narrowed into a short
petiole at the base, entire or obscurely dentate, flat, with
the midrib faintly channelled above, slightly prominent
beneath, green, somewhat shining, not glaucous. Cymes
from the axils of the upper leaves and terminal, pe-
dunculate, one- to three-flowered. Peduncles two to ten
lines long. Bracts half to one inch long, }-} inch

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broad, leaf-like, lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, acute.
Pedicels two-thirds to three-quarters of an inch long,
green. Calyx four to five lines long, deeply four-lobed,
glabrous, green, shining, lobes 3-4 lines long, erect, lan-
ceolate, acute, convex on the back. Covolla-tube about one
inch and a half long, + inch in diameter, obscurely four-
angled, slightly curved upwards, light reddish; limb
slightly oblique, four-lobed ; lobes seven to eight lines long,
about + inch broad, lanceolate acute, much recurved, light
red on the back, and more or less suffused with light red
on a yellowish-green ground on the inner face. Stamens
eight, much exserted; filaments faintly tinted with red,
adnate to the corolla, in two sets of four, for one half and
three-quarters of its length respectively, four of them
dilated, and forming broad lanceolate plaits at the base of
the corolla-tube; anthers oblong, reddish. Hypogynous
glands 4 inch long, elongate-ovate, narrowed above, bifid
at the apex, light green with yellowish tips. Carpels four ;
ovary half an inch long, green, tapering into filiform
exserted styles, a little more than an inch long, yellowish-
green ; stigmas simple,—N. E. Brown.

Fig. 1, anther; 2, hypogynous glands and pistil; 3, the same larger without
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BRACHYGLOTTIS Rrepanpa.
New Zealand. :

Composita. Tribe SENECIONIDER.
Bracuyeorttis, Forst.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 444.

Brachyglottis repanda, Forst. Char. Gen. (1776), p. 92, t. 46; Hook, f.
Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. p. 163; Kirk, Students’ Flora of N. Z. p. 336;
Gard. Chron, 1895, vol. i. p. 736, f. 110; species a B. Rangiora, Buch.,
foliis minoribus non lucidis et involucri bracteis albis nitidis differt.

Frutex vel arbor parva, 8-20 ped. alta. Rami albo-tomentosi, molles. Folia
alterna, longe petiolata, papyracea, absque petiolo szpius 4-8 poll. longa
et 2-5 lata, nunc minora nunc majora, ovato-oblonga, basi cordata vel
rotundata, vel superiora minora cuneata, angulato-paucilobulata, supra
atroviridia, subtus albo-tomentosa; petioli 1-3 poll. longi. Capitula
numerosissima, 2-3 lin. diametro, in paniculas amplas terminales pyrami-
dales folia excedentia disposita, sessilia, ramulis tomentosis. Involucri
bractez 6-8, uniseriate, oblonge, scarios®. Flores 8-12, vix 2 lin. longi,
exteriores feminei, corolla alba ligulata; interiores hermaphroditi, corolla
tubulosa lobis recurvis. Anthere lutew. Achenia minuta, papillis
hyalinis conspersa. Pappi sets copios#, uniseriate, albz.—Cineraria
vepanda, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austral. (1786), p. 56; Senecio Forstert,
Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. i. p. 148, non Philippi, nec Schlecht.

Kirk retains Buchanan’s B. Rangiora, probably because
the natives distinguish two species; but he observes that
it is not satisfactory as a species, and we have failed to
sort the dried specimens into two. Kirk adds that it is
much handsomer than B. repanda, the pukapuka or whar-
angi-tawhito of the Maoris; the leaves more glossy and
larger, sometimes as much as twelve inches by fifteen
without the petiole. Perhaps the plant figured is the
Rangiora of the Maoris, though that is described as having
purple involucres, At all events it produces leaves under
cultivation equally as large as indicated for B. Rangiora by
Kirk. B. repanda, as we shall continue to call it, was
introduced, or perhaps re-introduced, about a dozen years
ago, and succeeds well out of doors in the West of
England and in Ireland, especially near the sea; and itis
a very striking object. Earl Annesley (‘‘ Beautiful and
Rare Trees and Plants,” t. 29) shows the habit in a
specimen growing in the open air in his grounds at
Castlewellan. It flowers freely in the Scilly Islands, and

OcroBER Ist, 1905.

as a comparatively small plant in pots at Kew, but a
specimen eight feet high in one of the beds in the Tem-
perate House has hitherto, we believe, not flowered. A
specimen in the Kew Herbarium received from Mr. F. W.
Burbidge in 1895 has an inflorescence a foot long and a
foot wide at the base. It flowered under glass in the
Trinity College Botanic Garden.

It appears that the colonists sometimes call this the
paper-tree, but this name is evidently not in general use,
for we have not met with it in print. It is pencilled in a
Kew copy of Hooker’s “ Handbook.” Nevertheless it is
an appropriate name, as the leaves may be used for
writing on; a fact discovered long ago. Accompanying a
specimen in the Kew Herbarium, collected by R. Cun-
ningham, in 1834, is the following note :—‘‘ During the
time I was occupying the tented field at Wangaroa, Sadler
and I used to correspond through the medium of puka-
pulas. The back of the leaf, even in the recent state,
takes the ink capitally.” We have not tried fresh leaves,
but it is quite true for dried ones.

Buchanan states (Trans. N. Z. Inst. vol. xiv. p. 357)
that both species are poisonous to horses, which should be
taken into account by intending planters.

Descr.—A shrub or small tree eight to twenty feet high.
Branches clothed with a short, white indumentum. Leaves
alternate, long-stalked, without the stalk usually four to
eight inches long, sometimes larger, sometimes smaller,
ovate-oblong, cordate or rounded at the base, uppermost
cuneate, few-lobed, lobes short, obtuse, dark green above,
white beneath; stalks one to three inches long. Jlower-
heads very numerous, two to three lines in diameter,
sessile, arranged in large terminal, pyramidal panicles,
longer than the leaves; branches white. Bracts of the
involucre six to eight, uniseriate, oblong, scarious.
Flowers eight to twelve in a head, scarcely two lines long.
Corolla white, lobes recurved. Anthers yellow. Achenes
very small, papillose. Pappus white, silky.—W. Bortine
Hemstry,

Fig. 1, a flower-head; 2, a ray-flower; 3, a disk-flower; 4, anthers ; 5, upper
part of style and stigmas :—a/l enlarged.

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SKIMMIA JAPONICA.
Japan.

Ruracexz.—Tribe TopDALIEz.

Sximmia, Thunb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant..vol. i. p. 302; Engl. in Engl.
& Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. iii. 4, p. 181.

Skimmia japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 62; Kempfer, Ic. Sel. Plant. t. 5;
Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. vol. i. p. 127, t. 68; M. T. M. in Gard. Chron. 1889,
vol. 1. p. 520, ff. 89 et 90; Honzo Zufu, vol. xxiv. f. 5, non Lindl. et Pazt.
Fl. Gard. ii. p. 56, £. 163, nee Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4719; species japonica
foliis pallide viridibus floribus polygamis drupis globosis vel depresso-
globosis coccineo-rubris. :

Frutex sempervirens, dumosus, nanus, omnibus partibus aromaticus, inflores-
centia minute puberula excepta, glaberrimus. Folia alterna, seepe pseudo-
verticillata, breviter petiolata, coriacea, nitida, pallide viridia, obovato-
oblonga, oblonga vel lanceolata, 2-5- (seepe 3-4-) poll. longa, 4-1? poll.
lata, acuta, acuminata vel obtusa, basi attenuata, integerrima, pel-
lucide glanduloso-punctata; petioli crassi, szpissime rubescentes.
Flores polygami, suaveolentes, parvi, in paniculas thyrsoideas ter-
minales 2-3-poll. longas dispositi; pedicelli crassi, breves, bracteolis
parvis oppositis instructi. Calyx breviter 4—5-lobatus. Petala 4-5,
oblonga, alba, circiter 2 lin. longa et 13 lin. lata. Stamina 4-5,
petalis zquilonga. Ovariwm globosum, plerumque 4-loculare loculis
1-ovulatis; rndimentum in floribus masculinis depresso-globosum, calyce
multo brevius. Stylus simplex, crassus, brevis, stigmate incrassato
3- vel 4-Jobato. Drupa globosa vel depresso-globosa vel obsolete 3-4-
sulcata, interdum apice concava, circiter 4 lin. diam., coccineo-rubra,
2-4-pyrena. Pyrenze subtrigone, dorso convexw, 24-24 lin. longe.—
S. oblata, T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 962; 8. fragrans, Carriére in
Rev. Hort. 1869, p. 258; 1880, p. 56, f. 11. S&S. fragrantissima, Hort. ex
T,. Moore in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1866-67, p. 7.

The Skimmia here figured is a very familiar inhabitant
of our gardens. As long ago as 1838 it had a place in
the living collections at Kew, though its introduction into
general cultivation did not follow till the early sixties,
when Standish, of Bagshot, received it from Robert
Fortune, who obtained it during his visit to Japan in
1860-61. Thomas Moore, in 1864, gave it the name of
S. oblata.

Fortune had in 1849 sent home a Skimmia from China,
which Lindley at first thought to be S. Laureola. After-
wards it was generally accepted as the true 8. japonica,
and under that name was figured and described in this
Magazine in 1853 (t. 4719). Fortune’s Chinese plant is

Octoper Ist, 1905.

now known as S. Fortunei, Masters. Dr. Masters, in his
interesting account of the genus, published in the Gar-
dener’s Chronicle, in 1889, calls attention to the darker
green leaves of S. Fortunei, its invariably hermaphrodite
flowers, and obovate, dull crimson fruits.

Numerous Skimmias have originated in gardens, and
have received distinguishing names. ‘The history of the
more important is given in Dr. Masters’ paper.

All the Kew plants of S. japonica, so far as examined,
are dicecious, and the flowers tetramerous. Precocious
germination of the seeds, not infrequent in Rutacex, and
already recorded in Skimmia itself, was observed in the
case of one fruit still attached to the plant. In this the
large green embryo was bursting through the epicarp.

It may be mentioned that Dr. Engler limits Skimmia
to only one species, uniting therefore with the species here
figured not only 8S. Fortune’, but also the less hardy
S. Laureola, which, in gardens at least, from its different
behaviour under cultivation, and its less agreeable odour,
long ago noted by Lindley, is held to be quite distinct.

Descr—An evergreen, bushy, dwarf, aromatic shrub,
quite glabrous, except the minutely puberulous in-
florescence. eaves alternate, often nearly verticillate,
shortly petiolate, coriaceous, shining, pale green, obovate-
oblong to lanceolate, two to five (often three to four)
inches long, half to one and three-quarters of an inch
broad, acute, acuminate or obtuse, attenuated at the base,
quite entire, studded with transparent glands; petioles
thick, Flowers fragrant, small, in terminal thyrsoid
panicles two to three inches long; pedicels thick, short ;
bracteoles small, opposite. Calyx shortly four- or five-
lobed. Petals four or five, oblong, white, about two lines
long, and one line and a quarter broad. Stamens four or
five, as long as the petals. Ovary globose, usually four-
celled; cells one-ovuled. Drupe globose or depressed-

apa about four lines in diameter, bright red.—S. A.
KAN.

Figs. 1 and 2, male inflorescence and flower; 3 and 4, female inflorescence
and flower; 5, fruiting branch:—l, 3, and 5, natural size ; 2 and 4, enlarged.

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FORSYTHIA eEvropaa.
Albania.

O.raceEaz.—Tribe SYRINGE.
Forsytuta, Vahl; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 675.

Forsythia europa, Degen et Baldacci in CEsterreich. Bot. Zeit. 1897, p. 406;
Mitteil. der Deutschen Dendrol. Gesellsch. 1903, p. 113; Gard. Chron,
1904, vol. ii. p. 123, f. 50; ab F. viridissima foliis crassioribus ovatis infra
medium latioribus et floribus suberectis differt.

Frutew erectus, paucipedalis, dense ramosus, cortice brunneo sepius crebre
lenticellato verrucoso. Folia opposita vel interdum quaterna, petiolata,
demum subcoriacea, cito glabrescentia, alia innovationum § superiora
ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, obtusa 2-24 poll. longa, integra, vel rarius
plus minusve argute serrata, alia inferiora oblonga, deorsum gradatim
minora. lores ante folia evoluta, e gemma 1-3-ni, flavi, circiter 14 poll.
diametro ; pedunculi floribus breviores, perulati, perulis imbricatis ovato-
oblongis persistentibus. Calycis lobi ovati, circiter 2 lin. longi, apiculati,
ciliolati. Corolle lobi lineares, undulati, emarginati. Stamina 2, corolle
tubum paullo excedentia. Capsula ovoidea, acuminata, 6-8 lin. longa.

The discovery of a new species of Forsythia in Europe
was at first received with some doubts, especially as it is
not at first sight so obviously different from Ff’. viridissima
.(B. M. t. 4587) as to be at once recognized as such. It
was discovered in 1897 by Dr. A. Baldacci, an experienced
botanist and collector. He states that it forms extensive
thickets at Simoni and Kalyvaria, in the district of Oroshi.
In another place he says it is abundant in thickets in a
great part of the Mirdizia (Miredita, in about 42° N. lat.
and 20° EH. long.), where it is well known to the in-

habitants, and bears an Albanian name. We think it is
specifically different from the Chinese, but several of the
characters relied upon by the authors are inconstant. For
instance, under cultivation the leaves are sometimes very
distinctly toothed.

As to its being really indigenous in Albania, we see
no reason to doubt it. Many instances exist of genera
occupying widely separated areas. The allied genera
Syringa and Ligustrum are common to the Hast and the
West, and there is an another of the latter genus in
Australia. It is true that both genera have less widely
Separated areas in Hastern Europe and Asia.

OcroBER lst, 1905.

A more doubtful instance of isolated areas of distribution
is afforded by another member of the Oleacee, Fontanesia
phillyreotdes, which is a native of South-Hastern Hurope
and Asia Minor, and also occurs in China, in several
distant localities. It was first collected in China by
Fortune upwards of fifty years ago, and it was described
under the name of F. Fortunei. Maximowicz, however,
suggests that it was introduced into China, where, espe-
cially near Shanghai, it is commonly planted for hedging.
It is now undoubtedly spontaneous in the maritime pro-
vinces ; but it has not, we believe, been collected in Central
or Western China.

Forsythia europea was raised at Kew from seeds
obtained from Dr. Baldacci in 1899. It is of more com-
pact habit than F. viridissima, but as an ornamental
shrub it is not equal to I’. suspensa (B. M. t. 4995), the
only other distinct species.

F. Fortuni, Lindl. (Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 412), and —
F. Sieboldii, Dippel (Handbuch der Laubholzkunde, vol. 1.
p- 109) are varieties of F. suspensa, and F. intermedia,
Zabel (Gartenflora, 1891, p. 397, f. 82), is described as a
cross between I’. suspensa and F’, viridissima. |

Descr.—An erect, densely branched shrub, a few feet
high, glabrous or glabrescent in all parts. Leaves oppo-
site, or sometimes in fours, shortly stalked, rather thick,
at first pubescent, especially beneath, mostly ovate and
entire, two to three inches long, lower ones of a shoot
smaller, upper ones sometimes sharply toothed, all obtuse.
Flowers yellow, appearing before the leaves, solitary, or
two or three clustered, suberect, about an inch and a half
across; peduncles shorter than the flowers, clothed with
small, overlapping scales. Calyw-lobes ovate, about two
lines long, slightly fringed. Corolla-lobes linear, undulate.
Stamens two, slightly exceeding the corolla-tube. Capsule
ovoid, flattened, pointed, six to eight lines long.—
W. Borrine Hemstey.

Fig. 1, a toothed leaf from a barren shoot; 2, part of calyx and pistil;
3, part of corolla and stamens, which are longer than the tube of the corolla :—
both of the latter enlarged.

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COLCHICUM HYDROPHILUM.

Asia Minor. .

Lin1acem.—Tribe CoLcHICER.

Cotcnicum, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 821; Baker in
Journ. Linn, Soe. vol. xvii. p. 423.

Colchicum hydrophilum, Siehe in Gard. Chron. 1901, vol. i. p. 102, fig. 43;
Irving in The Garden, 1904, vol. i. p. 208, cum fig.; species ex affinitate
C. libanotici, Ehrenb. (B. M. t. 8015), perianthii segmentis acutioribus
obscurius roseis differt.

Cormus 1 poll. diam., tunicis atro-brunneis. olia perianthii tubo zquilonga,
demum 6 poll. longa, 2 poll. lata, oblongo-acuminata. Flores 3-5, fascicu-
latim dispositi, rosei. Perianthii tubus 3 poll. longus; lobi oblongi,
subacuti, 1 poll. longi, 3 lin. lati. Stamina perianthii lobis dimidio
breviora; filamenta media parte incrassata; anther lutew, filamentis
dimidio breviores. Styli albi, quam stamina paullo longiora. Capsula
3-loba ; semina globosa, pallide brunnea.

Colchicum is a genus in which many of the species are
separated by characters which become more or less obscured
when the specimens are dried; hence the advantage of
studying them in the living state, and of having them
figured, as has been done in the present volume in the case
of CO, libanoticum, Ehrenb, (t. 8015), and C. Stevent, Kunth
(t. 8025). To the former of these the present plant bears
great resemblance, and might, indeed, be almost regarded
as a variety with darker coloured flowers. Corms were
first obtained in 1898 from the Taurus Mountains, where
the plant grows at between 3,200 and 6,500 feet altitude.
In this locality during part of the year, abundant moisture
is provided by the melting snow, while at another
period the soil is sufficiently dry to enable the corms to
thoroughly ripen. |

Unlike many species of the genus, UO. hydrophilum has a
somewhat prolonged flowering period, having been in
flower for six weeks before our figure was taken in
February last from a plant in the Alpine House at Kew,
the corms of which were purchased in 1902 from Mr.
W. Siehe of Mersina.

Deser.—Corm an inch in diameter, tunics dark brown.
Leaves at the time of flowering as long as the perianth-

OcToBER Ist, 1905.

tube, finally six inches long and two inches wide, oblong,
acuminate. Flowers in clusters of three to five, bright
clear, rose-colour. Perianth-tube three inches long; lobes
oblong, subacute, one inch long, three lines wide. Stamens
half as long as the perianth-lobes; filaments thickened at
the middle; anthers yellow, half as long as the filaments.
Styles slightly longer than the anthers. Capsule three-
lobed ; seeds globose, light brown.—C,. H. Wricur.

Figs. 1 and 2, anthers :—enlarged.

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MORMODES poucctnator var. AURANTIACUM.

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Tropical America,

OrcHipacEs. Tribe VANDEZ.

Mormopss, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 552; Pfitzer in
Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenf. vol. ii. 6, p. 159. ;

Mormodes buccinator, Lindl. var. aurantiacum, Rolfe in Jil. Hort. vol.
xxxix. p. 11, t. 144; a typo floribus aurantiacis differt.

Herba epiphytica, circiter pedem alta. Psewdobulbi fusiformi-oblongi, 2-3 poll.
longi, vaginis imbricatis tecti. Folia oblonga vel lanceolato-oblonga,
acuminata, plicata, membranacea, viridia, 3-9 poll. longa, 13-34 poll.
lata. Scapt basilares, erecti, 9-12 poll. longi; racemi laxi, multiflori.
Bractez oblonge, acute, concave, 2-5 lin. longa. Pedicelli 1-14 poll.
longi. Flores speciosi, aurantiaci. Sepala elliptico-oblonga, subacuta,
10 lin. longa, incurva; lateralia basi reflexa. Petala sepalis similia,
incurva. Labellum late unguiculatum, sepalis paullo brevius; limbus
obliquus, late obovato-oblongus, apiculatus, valde concavus, ecristatus.
Columna oblique torta, lata, angulata, 5 lin. longa; operculum apicula-
tum ; pollinia per paria connata; stipes oblongus; glandula orbicularis.

Reichenbach once remarked that ‘* Mormodes buccinator,

Lindl., was well known as the most polychromatie Orchid
of the world, and as variable in shape,” and the point is
very well illustrated in its history, for no less than seven
forms described as species have been reduced to this
species, namely, M. brachystachya, M. flavidum, M. leuco-
chila, M. marmorea, M. vitellina, M. wagneriana, all of
Klotzsch, and M, lentiginosa, Hook. (B. M. t. 4455).
They embrace a wide range of colour, from ivory white to
light green, deep yellow, brownish purple, and speckled.
The variety awrantiacum first flowered with Messrs. Linden,
at Brussels, and is recorded as having been imported from
Peru. The one now figured was prepared from materials
communicated by Mr. F. W. Moore, A.L.8., Keeper of the
Royal Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, in February last, and
it closely resembles the original in colour, though the
segments are slightly more acuminate, but a comparison
with allied species fails to show a nearer affinity. It was
introduced by Messrs. Sander & Sons last year from an
unspecified locality.

OctToBeER Ist, 1905.

The other species which have been figured in this
Magazine are:—Mormodes Pardina, Batem. (t. 3900) ;
its variety wnicolor, Hook. (t. 3879); M. Cartoni, Hook.
(t. 4214); M. atropurpurea, Hook. (t. 4577) ; M. Greenit,
Hook. (t. 5802); M. Colossus, Rchb. f. (t. 5840); M. Ocanne,
Linden & Rchb. f. (t. 6496), and M. rolfeanum, L. Lind.
(t. 7438).

Descr.—A densely tufted epiphyte, about a foot high.
Bulbs oblong, more or less conical, fleshy, two to three
inches long, clothed with the broad imbricating leaf-
sheaths. Leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acuminate,
plicate, membranous, bright green, about three to nine
inches long, one and a quarter to one and three-quarter
inches broad. Scapes basal, erect, about nine inches to a
foot high; raceme lax, many-flowered. Bracts oblong,
acute, somewhat concave, two to five lines long. Pedicels
an inch to an inch and a half long. Flowers medium-
sized, somewhat globose, and deep orange-yellow through-
out. Sepals elliptic-oblong, subacute, about ten lines
long, somewhat incurved, and the lateral pair more or
less reflexed at the base. Petals very similar to the sepals
in shape, incurved. Lip broadly clawed, rather shorter
than the sepals; limb obliquely twisted, broadly obovate-
oblong, apiculate, very concave, without crests. Colwmn
obliquely twisted, broad, with two rather sharp angles,
about five lines long; anther-case apiculate; pollinia four,
connate in two pairs, attached to an oblong stipes and
circular gland.—R, A. Rotrs.

Figs. 1, lip and column; 2, anther-case; 3 and 4, pollinariam, seen from
front and back :~all much enlarged.

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STREPTOCARPUS Granpis.

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Zululand. ©

Gzsyerace&. ‘Tribe CyrtaNnDREA.
Srreptocarrvs, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1023.

Streptocarpus grandis, NV. F. Brown (sp. nov.); ex affinitate S. Saundersii, a
quo folio multo majore, floribus longioribus angustioribus et tubo
ceruleo differt.

Herba acaulescens. Folium unicum radicale, 2-3} ped. longum, 1-2} ped.
latum, ovatum, basi cordatum, crenatum, utrinqne pubescens; folia
caulina nulla vel pauca, parva, ovata, sessilia. Pedwnewli plures, 13-3}
ped. alti, superne in racemos 2-6 elongatos laxos furcati, pubescentes.
Flores bini. _Bracteze parve, lineari-subulate, acute. Pedicelli 6-10 lin.
lin. longi, patentes. Sepala 14-24 lin. longa, subulata, acuta, ut
pedicelli pilis simplicibus et glanduliferis pubescentia, Corolle tubus
1 poll. longus, ad medium decurvatus, subcylindricus, superne ampliatus,
minute glanduloso-pubescens, coeruleus, fauce violacea late bivittata;
limbus obliquus 2 poll. diam., lobis oblongis obtusis 2 posticis coeruleis,
3 anticis pallidioribus discis albidis ornatis. Stamina inclusa; filamenta
2 lin. longa, superne incrassata, glabra; anthere subreniformes, cohe-
rentes, albidw ; staminodia minuta. Ovariwm teres, patenter pubescens ;
stylus inclusus; stigma capitatum, transversum. Capsula 3-3} poll.
longa, torta, pubescens.

Once again the genus Streptocarpus has furnished our
gardens with an ornamental plant, which in size of
leaf and height of flower-stems is perhaps the largest
known of the genus. In the size of its leaf it may be
compared with 8. Dunnii (Bot. Mag. t. 6903), S. Wend-
landii (Bot. Mag. t. 7447), and 8. Saundersii (Bot. Mag.
t. 5251), to which latter species it is most nearly allied,
although very much larger in its foliage and more flori-
ferous, besides differing in the longer and narrower blue
tube and smaller limb of its corolla. It was discovered in
Zululand by Mr. W. J. Haygarth, together with a very
much smaller species (S. Haygarthii, N. EH. Br.). A dried
specimen of the latter was sent to Kew by Mr. J. Medley
Wood, Director of the Botanic Garden at Durban, Natal,
to whom Kew is indebted for a very large collection of
Natal plants. Mingled with it was a portion of a large
leaf belonging to the plant now described. Unfortunately
when publishing 8S. Haygarthii in the Flora Capensis, Mr.
C. B. Clarke mistakenly supposed “the herbarium frag-

NovemsBer Ist, 1905.

ment 26 in. wide,” mentioned in the description, to belong
to S. Haygarthit, in which the leaves are only six to ten
inches long and four to six and a half inches wide at the
most. From this cause we learn from Mr. Wood that seeds
of the large leaved plant were sent as S. Haygarthii by
Mr. Wood to Mr. W. E. Ledger, of Wimbledon, who
presented some to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in
1904, from which the plant here figured was raised, and
flowered this year from May to July.

Descr.—Stemless. Leaf solitary, spreading on the
ground, two to three and a half feet long, one to two and
a quarter feet broad, ovate, cordate at the base, crenate,
somewhat harshly pubescent on both sides with short,
stiff, erect hairs, bright deep green; veins impressed
above, very prominent beneath. F'lower-stems numerous,
one and a half to three and a half feet high, forking above
into two to six elongating; lax racemes, pubescent like
the leaf, purplish-brown. lowers in pairs. Bracts very
small, long, linear-subulate, acute. Pedicels half to three-
quarters of an inch long, spreading, pubescent with simple
and gland-tipped hairs. Sepals about one-sixth of an
inch long, subulate, acute, erect, pubescent like the
pedicels. Corolla-tube about one inch long, slightly curved
downwards at the middle, subcylindric, pubescent with
minutely gland-tipped hairs, light blue outside, white ©
within, marked with two broad violet stripes in the throat;
limb oblique, about three-quarters of an inch across ; lobes
oblong, rounded, the two upper equal, light blue, the
three lower unequal, paler blue with whitish disks.
Stamens included ; two perfect on the lower side of the
tube, three rudimentary and antherless on the upper side;
filaments of the perfect stamens very short, glabrous,
white ; anthers subreniform, cohering, glabrous, whitish.
Ovary with style included, terete, pubescent with spread-
ing, jointed, skarp-pointed hairs (not gland-tipped, as
represented on the plate); stigma capitate, transverse.
Capsule three to three and a half inches long, about one

line thick, twisted, harshly pubescent with simple hairs.—
N. E. Brown.

Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, corolla laid open; 4 and
5, anthers : all enlarged ; 6, whole plant: much reduced.

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PRIMULA TANGUTICA.
China.

Primutaces. Tribe PRIMULEA.
Primuta, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 631.

Primula (§ Proliferz) tangutica, Duthie in Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxviii.
p- 42, fig. 17; ex affinitate P. Mazximowiczii, a qua calycis lobis
longioribus et corolle lobis angustissimis differt.

Herba perennis, preter inflorescentiam glabra, rhizomate brevi crasso. Folia
omnia radicalia, 2-44 poll. longa, subcoriacea, glabra, anguste oblanceolata,
obtusa vel subacuta, basi in petiolum alatum attenuata, marginibas
remote et minute denticulatis; costa crassa, nervis lateralibus obscuris.
Scapus robustus, teres, 1-3 ped. altus, apice tantum puberulus. Flores
verticillati, cernui, odorati; bractew lineari-lanceolate, pedicellis breviores,
supra canaliculatz ; pedicelli 3-9 lin. longi, puberuli. Ca/yx quam corolle
tubus brevior, inzequaliter 5-lobus, extra glaber, intra farinoso-puberulus ;
lobi tubum subzequantes, triangulari-lanceolati, acuti, marginibus ciliatis,
vel minute denticulatis. Corolla 9-10 lin. diametro, fusco- vel atro-
purpurea; tubus 4-6 lin. longus, ore annulo pentagono instructus; lobi
reflexi, anguste ligulati. Stamina inclusa, medio tubi affixa; filamenta
brevissima, infra dilatata. Ovarium subglobosum, stigma hemisphericum,

_apice depressum. Capsula matura oblongo-cylindrica, calycem excedens.
—Primula Maximowiczii, Regel, var. tangutica, Maxim. in Herb. Hort.
Petrop. et Kew.

Amongst the many Primulas already known from
Eastern Asia this species is chiefly remarkable for the
peculiar colour of the flowers. It is most nearly related
to P. Maximowiczti, from which it differs by its narrower
leaves, longer calyx-lobes, and by the very narrow seg-
ments of the corolla. Specimens of this plant were first
collected in 1880 by Przewalski in the Kansu province of
N.W. China, and afterwards by Soulié (no. 951) at
Tongolo in Eastern Tibet. The plant here figured was
raised by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons from seed collected by
Mr. E. H. Wilson, who found it growing abundantly in
open grassy places at elevations between 11,000 and
13,000 feet. The flowers have a strong scent resembling
that of Jasminum Sambace.

Descr.—A perennial herb with a short, thick rootstock,

_ quite glabrous, except on portions of the inflorescence.

Leaves all radical, sub-coriaceous; blade two to five inches
long, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, tapering
November Ist, 1905. ‘

gradually into the winged petiole; margins remotely and
minutely denticulate ; midrib stout; veins obscure. Scape
up to three feet high, rather stout, minutely puberulous
near the top. Flowers in verticils of five to nine,
drooping, sweet-scented ; bracts linear-lanceolate, shorter
than the pedicels, channelled above. Calyx two-fifths of
an inch long, shorter than the tube of the corolla, glabrous
outside, minutely puberulous and farinose within; lobes
about as long as the tube, triangular-lanceolate, some-
what unequal, margins ciliate or minutely denticulate.
Corolla four-fifths of an inch across, dark brownish
purple ; tube about half an inch long, the mouth surrounded
by a raised pentagonal ring; lobes reflexed, narrowly
ligulate. Stamens one-tenth of an inch long; filaments
very short, dilated downwards. Ovary subglobose, stigma
hemispherical, with a depressed apex. Capsule oblong-
cylindrical, projecting above the calyx.—J. F. Doris.

Fig. 1, portion of leaf ; 2, section of calyx with pistil ; 3, a corolla laid open;
4, pistil :—all enlarged.

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LISSOCHILUS Uaanpa.

ay Uganda.

Orcuipacea. Tribe VANDER.
Lissocuiuus, R. Br.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 536.

Lissochilus Ugande, Ro/fe (sp. nov.); affinis, Z. lato, Rolfe, sed sepalis
longioribus, petalis fere dimidio angustioribus, labelli lobo intermedio vix
undulato et sacco latiore distincta.

Herba terrestris, tuberosa, Folia elongata, ligulata, subacuta, plicata, 2-3 ped.
longa, 1 poll. lata. Scapus erectus, 3} ped. altus, vaginis 4 tubulosis
tectus. Facemus compactus, 6-8 poll. longus, multiflorus. Bractesz
oblongo-lanceolatz, acute, concavie, 4 poll. longew. Pedicelli 9-11 lin.
longi. lores speciosi, flavi, sepalorum apicibus brunneo suffusis, labelli
lobis lateralibus brunneo-lineatis. Sepala reflexa, spathulato-oblonga,
obtusa, concava, circa 1 poll. longa. Petala incurva, elliptico-oblonga,
obtusa, 10 lin. longa. Labellwm trilobum, 1 poll. longum; lobi laterales
erecti, oblongi, obtusi, apice undulati; lobus intermedius orbiculari-
oblongus, obtusus, lateribus reflexis leviter undulatis; discus ad basin
3-carinatus, carinis crenulatis; saccus latissimus, obtusus, fere 3 lin. latus.
Columna clavata, angulata, circa 6 lin. longa. —

Lissochilus is a large and characteristic African
genus, Which, unlike the allied genus Hulophia, does
not extend its range through the eastern tropics. Over
ninety species are now known, about eighty of which
are limited to Tropical Africa, though a few extend
south of the tropic, where several additional species
occur, and there are four or five imperfectly known
Mascarene representatives. Many of the species are
strikingly handsome, though, owing to their large size
and deciduous, terrestrial habits, they are not very common
in cultivation. One of them ranks among the giants of
the Order, namely, L. giganteus, Welw., which, according
to Sir Harry Johnston, sometimes produces an inflorescence
as much as sixteen feet high, and plants have reached half
this height in cultivation. Five species have already been
figured in this work, namely, J. Horsfallii, Batem.
(t. 5486), L. Krebsii, Rehb. f. (t. 5861), L. Sandersoni,
Kehb. f. (t. 6858), L. milanjianus, Rendle (t. 7546), and
L. purpuratus, Lindl. (t. 7921). The genus is polymorphic,

NovemBer Isr, 1905.

and the flowers show a range of colour from yellow to
various shades of lilac and purple, sometimes intermixed
with green.

Lissochilus Ugande, Rolfe, is an interesting addition,
which was sent to Kew, in 1902, by Mr. John Mahon, then
Curator of the Botanic Gardens at Entebbe, Uganda, and
flowered in a tropical house in April, 1905.

Descr.—A. terrestrial, tuberous herb with Phaius-like
habit. Leaves elongate, ligulate, subacute, plicate, two to
three feet long by about an inch broad, glaucous green.
Scape rather stout, three feet and a half high, with about
four sheaths, from an inch to an inch and a half long, and
tubular at the base; raceme compact, six to eight inches
long, bearing about two dozen flowers. Bracts oblong-
lanceolate, acute, about half an inch long, concave.
Pedicels three-quarters to an inch long. Flowers about
_ two inches long, yellow, suffused with purple-brown at the
apex of the sepals, and lined with light brown on the side
lobes of thelip. Sepals reflexed, spathulate-oblong, obtuse,
concave, an inch or more long. Petals incurved over the
lip, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, rather shorter than the sepals.
Lip strongly three-lobed, an inch long; side lobes erect,
oblong, obtuse and undulate at the apex; front lobe
orbicular-oblong, obtuse, reflexed, and undulate at the

sides; disk with three nearly parallel keels extending to

the base, thicker, and crenulate in front; sac very broad
and obtuse, about a quarter of an inch long. Column
clavate, acute-angled, about half an inch long.—R. A.
RourFe.

Fig. 1, lip and column; 2, anther cap; 3 and 4, pollinarium, front and back
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ERICA auvstTRALIs.
S.W. Europe and N.W. Africa.

Ericacez. Tribe Ericea.
Erica, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 590.

Erica australis, Linn. Mant. alt. p. 231; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 19;
Benth, in D.C. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 666; Andr. Heaths, t. 52; species inter
affines antherarum cristis unilateraliter serratis insignis.

Frutex ramosissimus, usque ad 6-7 ped. altus, ramis gracilibus nigro-pubes-
centibus. Folia quaterna, vix semipollicaria, patentia, arcte recurva.
Flores rubro-purpurei, 3-4 lin. longi, 4-6 in ramulorum apicibus conferti,
brevissime pedicellati. Bracteole puberale, sepalis simillime et illis
arcte. approximate. Corolla cylindrica, lobis 4 rotundatis reflexis.
Antherz basifixe, atrorubree, brevissime exsertz, basi cristate. Discus
crenatus. Ovarium puberulum; stylus glaber, distincte exsertus, stigmate
capitato.—H. protrusa, Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. in Hort. Chap. Allert. Vig.
(1796), p. 298. FH. pistillaris, Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. vi. (1802),
p. 368. EH. aragonensis, Willk. in Linnea, vol. xxv. p. 46. £. umbellata,
Asso, Syn. Arag. p. 49.

Aiton, who calls this the ‘ Spanish Heath,” records it
as having been introduced into cultivation in this country
by George, Earl of Coventry, in 1769, and Salisbury had
it in his garden at Chapel Allerton in 1796; but it is
still rare in gardens, though one of the prettiest of the
hardy species. This may be due to its being unable to
withstand our severest winters, which one might expect
from its geographical distribution. The present plantation
at Kew has only been in existence since 1896, so that it
has not passed through a season of extreme cold. It is
recorded as attaining a height of six or seven feet, but is
usually a bush about half that height. Like most of the
heaths, it begins flowering when quite young, and it con-
tinues in flower from April to July. It is a free grower,
and perhaps the most ornamental of the out-door species ;
the brightness of the colour of its flowers being its special
attraction. In structure H. australis comes nearer our
native H. Tetralia and LE. cinerea than it does to the southern
Li, arborea and L. lusitanica.

_ Descr—A. densely branched shrub, sometimes six or
Seven feet high, but usually less. Branches very slender,
NovemBer Ist, 1905.

clothed with a black tomentum. Leaves in fours, about
half an inch long, spreading at nearly right angles,
margins closely recurved. Flowers bright purple-red,
about a third of an inch long, borne in clusters of four to
six at the ends of the branches, very shortly stalked.
Bracteoles similar to the sepals, and closely applied to
them, presenting the appearance of a double calyx.
Corolla cylindrical ; lobes four, rounded, recurved. Anthers
deep red, slightly exserted, crested at the base. Style
slightly overtopping the stamens.— W. Boitinc HEMSLEY.

Fig. 1, a whorl of leaves ; 2, a flower; 3and 4, stamens; 5, disk and pistil :—
all enlarged.

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ASPARAGUS MADAGASCARIENSIS,

Madagasear.

Litraces®. Tribe ASPARAGER.

Asparagus, Linn. ; Penth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 765,

Asparagus madagascariensis, Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xvi. p. 206;
species A, scandenti, Thunb., accedens, caule erecto differt.

I'rutex erectus, ramosus. Rami tenues, rigidi, valde 5-costati. Folia ad
spinas breves latas recurvas reducta. Phyllocladia ternata, oblanceolata
vel fere oblonga, leviter obliqua, cuspidata, 6 lin. longa, 1} lin. lata.
Flores dilute lutei, ad apices ramulorum ternatim dispositi, 3 lin. diam. ;
pedicelli prope medium articulati. Perianthii segmenta elliptica, obtusa.
Stamina perianthio wequilonga. Ovariwm distincte 3-lobatum; stylus
ovario wequilongus, breviter 3-ramosus. Bacea 3-lobata, 6 lin. diam.,
rubra.

This plant, which was received at Kew in 1903 from
the Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle, Paris, under the name of
Asparagus ruscifolius, produced an abundant crop of fruit
in a tropical house in March last, and again flowered in
May. Unlike most of the species of Asparagus grown for
decorative purposes, it is not a climber, but an erect shrub
with the appearance of a narrow-leaved form of Ruscus
uculeatus, Linn. The plant here figured was not much
over a foot high, but in a note on a herbarium specimen
collected by Dr. G. W. Parker, it is said to attain a height
of twelve feet. The type specimen was collected nearly
thirty years years ago at Antananarivo by Miss Helen
Gilpin, of the Friends’ Foreign Mission Association, and
was erroneously described as a climber. Since then the
species has been found in Central Madagascar by several
other collectors.

Desev.—An erect much-branched shrub. Branches
slender, rigid, with about five prominent longitudinal
ridges. Leaves developed as short, broad, recurved spurs,
Phylloclades ternate, oblanceolate, or nearly oblong,
slightly oblique, cuspidate, half an inch long, an eighth of
an inch broad. lowers yellowish, in fascicles of three at
the ends of the branchlets, quarter of an inch in diameter ;
pedicels articulated near the middle. Pevianth-segments

NovemBer Ist, 1905.

elliptic, obtuse. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth.
Ovary distinctly three-lobed; style nearly as long as the
ovary, shortly three-branched. Berry three-lobed, half an
inch in diameter, crimson.—C. H. Wricut.

Fig. 1, portion of a branchlet bearing a leaf-spur; 2, the same, showing the
insertion of three phylloclades ; 3 flowers ; 4, pistil:—all en/arged.

Note to Tas. 8029.

By a clerical error, Impatiens Holstii is stated to have
been purchased for Kew in 1894. This antedates its
introduction by ten years. It should have been 1904.

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LISSOCHILUS Manon.
Uganda.

OrcuipacEs®. Tribe VaNpEex.

Lissocnitus, R. Br.; Benth et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 586; Rolfe in —
Thiselton-Dyer Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 70.

Lissochilus Mahoni, Rolfe (sp. nov.); affinis L. giganteo, Rchb. f., labelli
lobis lateralibus viridibus brunneo-striatis, carinis magis validioribus
distinctus.

Herba terrestris, elata. decidua, habitu Phaiorwm majorum. Folia lan-
ceolata, acuminata, basi multo attenuata, plicata, 43-54 ped. longa, 34-4
poll. lata, viridia. Scapi validi, erecti, 6-8 ped. alti, infra medium
vaginis tubulosis obtecti; racemi compacti, multiflori. Bracteze ovato-
oblonges, acuminate vel obtuse, convolute, 2-1} poll. longewe, supra
gradatim abbreviate. Pedicelli 14-1} poll. longi. Flores speciosi,
diametro maximo circiter tripollicares. Sepala reflexa, obovato-oblonga,
breviter acuminata, circiter 1 poll. longa, viridia, branneo-suffusa,
Petala ovato-orbicularia, subobtusa vel obscure apiculata, circiter 1} poll.
longa, roseo-lilacina. Labellum trilobum, circiter 1$ poll. longum ; lobi
laterales erecti, late rotundati, crenulati, virides, intus venis brunneis
paullo incrassatis radiati; lobus medius patens, oblongus, obtusus,
lateribus retlexis et crenulatis, basi viridis, fronte purpurea, venis atro-
purpnreis; discus tricarinatus; calli validi, undulati, denticulati, pallide
virides, basi subattenuati; calear conicum, circiter $ poll. longum.
Columna clavata, 9 lin. longa. _

Lissochilus Mahoni is a remarkable novelty, which was
discovered by Mr. John Mahon, Curator of the Botanic
Garden at Entebbe, Uganda, and sent to Kew in 1902.
It flowered in a tropical house in April, 1905, and for
several weeks formed a conspicuous object, standing above
the tank of the Victoria House. It is a plant of large
dimensions, its scape reaching a height of eight feet,
almost rivalling its near ally L. giganteus, Rchb. f., one of
the giants of the family, which is an ornament of the
muddy shores of the Congo basin, as described by Sir
H. H. Johnston in his work on the Kiver Congo, published
in 1884.

The group of species to which the two species mentioned
belong is characterized by having broad or ovate bracts,
and purple or lilac, occasionally white, petals, and com-
prises about fourteen known species, all of them plants of
large size. Three others are, or have been, in cultivation,

DecemBer Ist, 1905.

namely, DL. Horsfullii, Batem. (Bot. Mag. t. 5486), L.
Sandersoni, Rchb. f. (/.c., t. 6858), and DL. roseus, Lindl.
(Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 12).

Descr.—A_ deciduous terrestrial Orchid of Phaius-
like habit. eaves lanceolate, acuminate, much attenuate
at the base, plicate, four and a half to five and a half feet
long, three and a half to four inches broad, bright green.
Scape stout, erect, ultimately over eight feet high, with
about four tubular sheaths, two to three inches long,
below the middle, and bearing at the apex a compact
raceme of about three dozen flowers. Bracts ovate-oblong,
acuminate or subobtuse, convolute, lower an inch and a
half long, upper shorter. Pedicels one inch and a half to
one and three-quarters long. Flowers among the largest
in the genus. Sepals reflexed, obovate-oblong, shortly
acuminate, about an inch long, green, suffused, and
somewhat veined with brown. Petals ovate-orbicular,
subobtuse or obscurely apiculate, about an inch and a
quarter long by nearly as broad, rosy lilac, slightly darker
behind. Lp three-lobed, about an inch and three-quarters
long; side lobes erect, broadly rounded, crenulate, green,
with thickened, radiating brown nerves inside; front lobe
spreading, oblong, obtuse, reflexed at the sides, crenulate,
purple in front, with darker nerves, passing into green at
the base; dise bearing three tall undulate, denticulate,
whitish-green, parallel keels, two-thirds of the way up,
the middle much dwarfer towards the base; spur conical,
half an inch long. Column clavate, about nine lines long.
Capsule elliptical-oblong, obtusely ribbed at the three
angles, somewhat verrucose and glaucous, two and a half
inches long.—k. A. Rourn.

Fig. 1, column; 2, anther case; 3 and 4, pollinarium, seen from front and
back ; 5, sketch of whole plant :—1-4, enlarged, 5, much reduced.

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X. SAXIFRAGA apicunata.
Of Garden Origin.

SaXtpRaGacem. Tribe SaxrrraGEa.
Saxirraca, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 635.

Saxifraga apiculata, Hngl. in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. i. p. 556, t. 68; Mottet
in Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 231, t. 91; W.S. in Journ. Hort. Ser. iii. vol. xliv.
p. 186; stirps quoad folia ad S. sanctam, Griseb., quoad flores ad
S. aretioidem, Lapeyr. spectans.

Plenta cxspitosa, caudiculis sublignosis, densissime foliatis. Folia basalia
lineari-oblonga, acute cuspidata, 4-6 lin. longa, 1 lin. lata, leviter carinata,
crassa, usque ad medium vel altius ciliata, apice et margine cartilaginea,
apice foveola 1, utroque margine foveolis 3-5 instructa. Caules floriferi
2-34 poll. longi, glanduloso-pilosi, 5—-9-flori, ramulis 1-2-floris. Folia
caulina subspathulata, circiter 3 lin. longa. Calycis tubus turbinatus,
1 lin. longus, dense glanduloso-pilosus; lobi ovato-oblongi, apiculati, 13
lin. longi, glanduloso-ciliati. Petala obovata, 34 lin. longa, 2 lin. lata,
patentia. Filamenta subulata, 2} lin. longa. Axtherz suborbiculares,
basi cordate. Ovarium semi-inferum, stylis leviter divergentibus, 2 lin.
longis, stigmatibus capitellatis.—S. Malyi, X, Hort. ex Gard. Chron. 1894,
1. 556. S. luteo-purpurea, Hort. l.c., non aliorum.

Saeifraga apiculata is a plant of somewhat uncertain
parentage, it is stated, on the authority of the Rev.
C. Wolley Dod, to have been raised by the late Mr. Franz
Maly, Curator of the Imperial Gardens, Belvedere, near
Vienna, by crossing 8. Friderici-Augusti and S. sancta,
but experimental verification is desirable. S. apiculata is
a plant of vigorous growth, and flowers in the months
of February and March, considerably earlier than most of
the genus, and is especially valuable on that account as a
greenhouse plant. ‘There is a fine patch of S. apiculata in
the Rock Garden at Kew, where it flowers freely, but does
not produce perfect capsules, a fact tending to confirm its
hybrid origin. The plant figured flowered in the Alpine
House in March of the present year.

Descr.—A tufted plant. Stems rather woody, very
leafy. Basal leaves linear-oblong, sharply cuspidate, about
half an inch long, slightly keeled, ciliate for at least the
lower half, with a row of seven to eleven pits on the upper
surface inside the cartilaginous margin. Flowering stems
two to three and a half inches long, glandular-hairy, five-
to nine-flowered. Cauline leaves subspathulate, about a

DecemBer Ist, 1905.

fourth of an inch long. Calyw-tube turbinate, a twelfth of
an inch long, densely glandular-hairy ; lobes ovate-oblong,
apiculate, glandular-ciliate. Petals pale yellow, obovate,
about a third of an inch long, spreading.—T. A. SpraGuE.

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FELICIA ECHINATA.
South Africa.
Composit. Tribe AsTEROIDE.

Feruicia, Cass.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 274; Harv. in Harv.
et Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 69, sab Astere.

Felicia echinata, Nees, Gen. et Sp. Aster. p. 216; DO. Prodr. vol. v. p. 222;
ab affini /. reflera, DC. (Bot. Mag. t. 884) floribus radii ceruleis,
achzeniis disci pilosis pappoque differt.

Fruticulus 1-2 ped. altus. Rami erecti, dense foliati, longiuscule pilosi.
Folia sessilia, patula vel + deflexa, oblongo-lanceolata, pungenti-apiculata,
basi angustata, 4-10 lin. longa, 13-3 lin. lata, longiuscule ciliata (rarius
nuda), obscure pellucido-punctata. Pedunculi solitarii terminales vel
plures corymbosi, sparse foliati. Involucri bractexe lanceolato-oblonge,
acuminate, pellucido-marginatez, dense ciliolate, extra glabre vel +
hispide. Flores radii: tubus 1-13 lin. longus, superne, ut ligule basis,
extra sparse pilosus; ligula 4-5 lin. longa, 2-1 lin. lata, apice tridentata.
Achsenia glabra; pappi setee 13-2 lin. longs, inconspicue barbellate.
Flores disci: tubus 13-2 lin. longus, extra glaber (vel supra minutissime
puberulus) ; lobi 3 lin. longi, } lin. lati. Achzenia subappresse pilosa;
pappus forum radii—Felicia Paralia, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 222. Pteronia
echinata, Thunb. Fl. Cap. p. 629. Aster echinatus, Less. Syn. Comp.
p- 177; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 77.

Felicia echinata has been grown in the Temperate House
at Kew for many years, but does not seem to have been
recorded hitherto as cultivated in Europe. As grown at
Kew formerly, F. echinata was a loose, straggling, few-
flowered shrub, but it has now, by repeated cutting-back,
been made to assume a compact form, and to flower freely
in spring.

Harvey (Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 77) distinguished two
varieties, a. echinata proper and B. Paralia (Felicia
Paralia, DU.), differing chiefly in the hairiness of the
involucral bracts, but it seems undesirable to keep up his
varieties, since they are connected by intermediate forms,
as he himself admitted.

The fact of the disc achenes of F. echinata being
pilose was not noticed by De Candolle, who, followed by
Harvey, placed the species in a section with glabrous
achenes.

Descr.—A small shrub, one to two feet high. Branches
erect, very leafy, covered with longish hairs. Leaves

DecemBeER Ist, 1905,

sessile, spreading, or deflexed, oblong-lanceolate, with
pungent apex, narrowed towards the base, a third to
three-quarters of an inch long, a ninth to a quarter of an
inch broad, ciliate, rarely naked, with very obscure pellucid
dots. Peduneles with scattered bract-like leaves, solitary
and terminal, or several in a corymb. Bracts of the
involucre lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, with pellucid
margins, densely ciliate, glabrous, or more or less hispid
outside. Ray-flowers lilac—corolla-tube about a twelfth
of an inch long, pilose outside, towards the top; ligule
about a third of an inch long, about a twelfth of an inch
broad, three-toothed at the apex. Achenes glabrous;
pappus inconspicuously barbulate. Disc floweis yellow—
Achenes pilose, with subappressed hairs ; pappus like that
of the ray.—T. A. Spracus.

Fig. 1, leaf, 2, a ray-floret ; 3, pappus; 4, a disc-floret ; 5, anthers ; 6, style-
arms :—all enlarged.

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SCIADOPITYS verricttuata.
Japan.

Conirera&. Tribe Taxopiex.
Scrapvoritys, Sieb. & Zuce.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 437.

Sciadopitys verticillata, Sieb. § Zucc. Fl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 1, tab 1, 2; species
unica.

Arbor excelsa, sempervirens, pyramidalis, ramis patentibus. Folia squamosi-
formia, deltoidea. Cladodia prope apices ramulorum verticillata, hori-
zontaliter expansa, foliiformia, linearia, rigida, apice obtusa, brevissime
bifida, supra saturate viridia, nitida, leviter sulcata, infra sulco profundo
niveo predita. Flores masculini ovoidei, in racemum congestum ter-
minulem subsessilem bracteis paucis membranaceis brevibus suffultum
aggregati. Stamina late oblonga, apice acuto reflexo. Loculi 2, penduli,
oblongi, rima longitudinali dehiscentes. Pol/en globosum, minute tuber-
culatum. Strobi/us femineus ad 3 poll. longus, 14 poll. latus, terminalis,
deinde innovatione accrescente lateralis, cladodiis prolatis seepe coronatus,
crassus, ovoideo-oblongus, breviter pedunculatus, pedunculo bracteis
paucis membranaceis predito. Sguama ovulifera majuscula, bractew
breviori membranacew apice acato reflexo adnata, orbiculari-rhomboidea,
carnosa, infra viridix, margine brunneo. Ovula 6-9, compressa.— Taxus
verticillata, Thunb. F]. Jap. 276. Pinus verticillata, Sieb. in Verhand.
v. h. Batav. Genootsch. vol. xii. p. 12. :

Sciadopitys, like Gingko, stands alone amongst Coniere,
‘with no obvious affinities or immediate allies. Both, it
must therefore be conjectured, come down to us from a
remote geological past, which has obliterated all trace of
their immedate ancestors or contemporary congeners. It
is a native of Japan, where it was long only known to
botanists from a few individuais cultivated in temple-
gardens. Professor Sargent, however, found it forming
forests on mountains in the Province of Mino, where it
attains the height of 100 feet, and its timber is an article
of commerce.

It was first made known to European botanists by
Thunberg, who saw it in cultivation during his visit to
Japan (1775-6). As he supposed it to be a species of
yew with which it has not the slightest affinity, it 1s clear
that he could not have seen the cone. Siebold first
accurately described it in 1842, and gave it a scientific
name which is a literal translation of ‘‘ Umbrella Pine,”

DecEMBER Ist, 1900.

as it is called in Japanese, on account of the shoots, which
serve as leaves, spreading out like the ribs of an umbrella.
The first plant which reached Europe was obtained by
Thomas Lobb in 1853 from the Buitenzorg Botanic
Garden, to which, owing to Dutch influence, many Japan-
ese plants had been introduced. This did not long
survive, but in 1861 Mr. John Gould Veitch brought
seeds from Japan, and about the same time they were
obtained by Robert Fortune.

The figure is from the oldest plant in the Kew Pinetum.
It was probably obtained, as were many subsequent
specimens, from Messrs. Veitch. Although the second
largest recorded specimen in the country, it grows very
slowly, and has only attained the height of fifteen feet.

Sciadopitys is of peculiar interest to botanists on account
of the anomalous character of what, for want of a better
term, must be called its “foliage.” This at first sight
consists of ‘leaves’? not unlike those of a Pine. They
are, however, really leaf-like shoots (cladodia) produced in
the axils of the true leaves, which are reduced to mere
membranous scales. This was first pointed out by the late
Alexander Dickson (Report of the London Botanical
Congress, 1866, p. 124). It was confirmed by the in-
teresting observations of Carriére (Rev. Hort. 1868,
pp. 150-151) who met with a case in which they divided,
and produced secondary tufts of leaf-like organs, be-
having, in fact, like true branches. The problem was
discussed on anatomical grounds by Von Mohl in 1871, in
the last paper published by that eminent botanist. He
arrived at the conclusion, in which he has been generally
followed, that the cladode of Sciadopitys is an axillary shoot
or branch with two coherent leaves.

The systematic position of Sciadopitys amongst Coni-
Jere is not easily defined, and must probably remain more
or less artificial. Bentham and Hooker include it amongst
the Araucariee, from which it is aberrant, in having
numerous ovules. I have followed Parlatore, Masters,
and others, in placing it in Taxodiex.

Descr.—An evergreen tree, reaching 100 feet in Japan.
Bark reddish-brown, deciduous in strips. Branches sub-
verticillate, spreading horizontally. Leaves scale-like,
deltoid, caducous, bearing in their axils cladodes or leaf-

hike shoots. Cladodes in verticils of 20-30, spreading,
two to four inches long, linear, rigid, apex obtuse
minutely bifid, dark green and shining with a median
groove above, paler beneath with a white median furrow.
Male flowers ovoid, half an inch long, in a terminal com-
pact raceme, about one inch long, subsessile, with a few
short membranous bracts. Stamens broadly oblong,
shortly stipitate, apex acute reflexed. Cells, 2, pendu-
lous, oblong, dehiscing by a vertical slit. Pollen globular,
minutely tuberculate. Female cone terminal, afterwards
thrown to one side by the growth a lateral branch,
often crowned by sterile cladodes, about three inches
long, one and a half inch broad, oblong-ovoid, shortly
stalked ; peduncle with a few membranous bracts. Ovuli-
Jerous scale rather large, about three-quarters of an inch
wide, longer than and adnate to the subtending bract,
orbicular-rhomboid, fleshy, green below, with a brown
margin, Bract membranous, apex acute reflexed. Ovules
6-9, compressed —W. T. T.-D.

Fig. 1, section of leaf, magnified; 2, anther front, and 3, back view,
magnified ; 4, bract and ovuliterous scale back, and 5, front view (young);
6, young ovule (magnified); 7, bract and ovuliferous scale back, and 8, front
view of latter (mature) ; 9, young seed magnified.

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PRIMULA VEITCHIL,

China.

PrimvuLacea&. 'I'ribe PRimutea.
Primuta, Linn,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 631.

Primula (§ Aleuritia) Veitchii, Duthie in Gard. Chron. vol. xxxvii. (1905),
i. p. 344, cum tab. in Suppl.; ex affinitate P. cortusoidei, Linn.,
a qua habitu robustiore, foliis et floribus majoribus, et foliorum pagina
inferiore copiose pubescente differt.

Herba perennis, rhizomate gracili horizontali. Folia omnia radicalia, petio-
lata; lamina 3-4 poll. longa et lata, ovata, cordata, bullata, alte lobata ;
lobi imbricati, 3-5-dentati, dentibus obtusis vel subacutis, marginibus
ciliatis; pagina superior viridis, parce hirsuta, inferior tomento albo
subfloccoso induta, costa et nervis primariis crassis valde prominentibus ;
petiolus laminam subequans, pilosus. Scapi robusti, 9-14 poll. alti,
dense puberuli. Flores umbellati vel verticillati, roseo-purpurei; pedi-
celli 9-12 lin. longi, bracteas superantes, puberuli; bracteze numerose,
anguste elliptico-lanceolatz, marginibus ciliatis. COa/yx 6 lin. longus,
brunneo-viridis, extra copiose intra vix pubescens, lobis circa 2 lin.
longis, lineari-lanceolatis, marginibus ciliatis. - Corolla hypocrateriformis,
1 poll. diametro, extra puberula; tubus 4-5 lin. longus, szepius rubro
suffusus, ore flavo annulo aurantiaco conspicue circumcincto, lobis obcor-
datis ad basim cuneatis. Filamenta brevissima, infra dilatata. Capsula
matura calycem duplo superans.

This is one of the handsomest of the more recently
imported Chinese primulas, and will probably prove to be
a valuable addition to the list of the cultivated species of
this favourite genus. In general habit it approaches
P. cortusoides, but it is a much more robust plant, and
with larger and broader leaves, the under surface of which
is densely clothed with whitish floccose tomentum; the
flowers also are much larger, and of a deeper rose colour.
It was discovered by Mr. H. H. Wilson on the mountains
of Western Szechuen, growing on cliffs and exposed spots,
at elevations between 8,000 and 10,000 feet. The
accompanying plate was prepared from material supplied
by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, from their Nursery at
Coombe Wood.

Descr.—A perennial herb. Rhizome slender, horizontal.
Leaves all radical, petioled; blade three to four inches in
length, and as broad as long, ovate, cordate, rugose or
subbullate, deeply lobed ; lobes imbricate, coarsely 3—5-fid.,

DeceMBER Ist, 1905,

teeth obtuse or subacute, margins ciliate; upper surface
green, sparingly pubescent, densely clothed beneath with
white floccose tomentum, midrib and primary nerves stout
and prominent; petiole nearly as long as the blade, pilose.
Scape stout, overtopping the leaves, densely puberulous.
Flowers umbelled, or occasionally in verticils, rose-purple ;
bracts many, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, the edges ciliate ;
pedicels exceeding the bracts, puberulous. Caly« half an
inch long, brownish green, pubescent outside, sparingly
so within, teeth one-third the length of the ovate tube,
linear-lanceolate, ciliate. Corolla salver-shaped, about one
inch in diameter, finely puberulous outside ; tube about a
third of an inch long, usually tinged with red; mouth
yellow, surrounded by an orange-coloured ring; lobes
obcordate, cuneate below. Filaments very short, dilated
at the base. Capsule twice as long as the calyx when ripe.

—J. F. Doruiz,

Fig. 1, portion of under surface of leaf ; 2, calyx and pistil ; 3, vertical section
of ditto ; 4, vertical section of corolla :—all enlarged.

INDEX

To Vol. I. of the Fourtn Serres, or Vol. CX XXI. of the
whole Work.

8005 Aichmea lavandulacea.
7999 Angelonia integerrima.
8046 Asparagus madagascariensis.
8021 Bowkeria gerrardiana.
8037 Brachyglottis repanda.
8000 Bulbophyllum crenulatum.
8009 Burbidgea schizocheila.
8022 Cacalia tuberosa.
7992 Cadalvena spectabilis.
8007 Catasetum christyanum.
8033 Cirrhopetalum breviscapum.
8040 Colchicum hydrophilum,
8015 ‘ libanoticum,
8025 a Steveni.
8024 Coleus shirensis.
8010 Cotoneaster rotundifolia.
7993 Cotyledon elegans.
8036 insignis.
8003 Dendrobium regium.
8008 Derris alborubra.
8045 Erica australis.
8018 _,, lusitanica.
8049 Felicia echinata.
8039 Forsythia europea.
8001 Gnidia polystachya.
8016 Hippophaé rhamnoides.
8029 Impatiens Holstii

(See also under 8046).
8047 Lissochilus Mahoni.
8044 . vi Ugande.
8014 Listrostachys bidens.
8026 ms Monteire.

8020 Lycaste Locusta.

8027 Meconopsis integrifolia.

8041 Mormodes buccinator, var.
aurantiacum.

8017 Nepenthes Rajah.

8006 Nicotiana forgetiana.

8031 Odontoglossum ramulosum.

8023 Pernettya mucronata,

8032 Petasites japonicus.

7994 Phyllostachys nigra.

8011 Pinanga maculata.

8030 Plectranthus crassus,

8043 Primula tangutica.

8051 », Veitchii.
8034 Prunus pendula.
8012 ,» Pseudo-cerasus.

8019 Rhabdothamnus Solandri
(See also under 8031).

8013 Rhipsalis. dissimilis, var.
setulosa.

8002 Romneya trichocalyx.

8004 Rosa Hugonis.

8048 Saxifraga apiculata.

8050 Sciadopitys verticillata.

8035 Scilla messeniaca.

8038 Skimmia japonica.

8042 Streptocarpus grandis.

7995 Swainsona maccullochiana.

8028 Tetratheca thymifolia.

7998 Tulipa linifolia.

7996 Vanilla Humblotii.

7997 Yucca guatemalensis.

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